Back in 2009, a-ha fans around the world wept a fjordful of tears as the Norwegian trio called time on a staggeringly successful 25-year career. With record sales in excess of 100 million and world tours aplenty under their...
Read MoreOf all the arts, contemporary dance is perhaps the most abstract and least understood. The way to think of it is not so much the telling of a story, but as an emotional response to something – a person or a painting, for example...
Read MoreIf you are lucky enough to have visited Rome, you will no doubt have remarked upon the number and beauty of its churches, many of which present themselves as objects of chance discovery in the city’s charismatic streets. With...
Read MoreLooking at contemporary art is very often to subject oneself to a riddle. With a thoughtful or bemused expression, we may fumble inwardly for understanding: grasping the artist’s concept is often key to appreciating the piece....
Read MoreIn 1895, the Lumière brothers developed the world’s first commercially successful movie projection system, the cinématographe. Although the moving image had been in the public domain since Plateau’s phenakistoscope of 1832, it...
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