The first in a series of projects examining the contemporary urban landscape. In a solo show of work, Michael McGraw shows layered transparency light boxes and a specially commissioned piece influenced by urban surveillance.
60 Second Interlude
July 11, 2010
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Jews in Rome: 1938-44
July 9, 2010Housed in an ex-Gestapo prison, the museum dedicated to the Italian Resistance movement is one of the most haunting in the city. Its blood-stained cells still bear grim witness to the horrors of Nazi occupation. Now the museum has been extended, with new displays dedicated to the fate of Roman Jews between 1938, when Mussolini issued the first of the infamous race laws, to the liberation of Rome in 1944, when the Allies entered the capital. By then, thousands of Roman Jews had perished in concentration camps.
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Secrets of Silicon Valley
July 3, 2010As part of The Museum of Fine Arts ‘visiting film artists’ series there is a special screening of ‘Secrets of Silicon Valley’. A satirical drama, it chronicles a year in the life of two young social activists and the action surrounding a fundraising soap box derby car race involving Silicon Valley companies. It’s directors Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman will be on hand at the screening to talk about their film and field any questions.
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John Cale
July 2, 2010One of the rock avant-garde’s founding figures steps on to the stage at Bikini with only his piano, guitar and gentle Welsh vowels to defend himself. John Cale will always be best known as the Velvet Underground’s ‘other’ creative genius – complementing Lou Reed’s rock sensibilities with his own classical training and experimental bent. Post-Velvets, he became a successful producer, while as a solo artist, he has alternated freely between arty leftfield albums and more conventional singer-songwriter work. He’s not enjoying huge success but is maintaining his reputation as a musician’s musician.
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Excuses!
June 25, 2010A new comedy from the Krampack company, one of the most successful groups to emerge recently in the Catalan theatre scene. Krampack took its name from its first stage hit, and ‘Excuses!’ continues in the same comic line, a story of love, war and excuses between two thirtysomething couples. Leading men Joel Joan and Jordi Sànchez have turned into local celebrities as the stars of the top-rating Catalan sitcom ‘Plats Bruts’ (Dirty Dishes), which is another Krampack production.
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Juvenile
June 13, 2010Juvenile, who grew up in the Magnolia Housing Project, shot to the top of the rap heap with ‘Ha’, a sizzling single that made ‘ha’ a US byword. One of the stars of New Orleans’s Cash Money Records, Juvenile will play the Superdome, the big daddy of Louisiana venues. His label mates, known collectively as ‘the Cash Money Millionaires’, are expected to perform with him.
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Trois Huit
June 10, 2010Winner of the Prix Lucien Barrière, Philippe Le Guay’s ‘Trois Huit’ is a factory film that for once is not about sociopolitical issues. Instead, it deals with the bullying and herd behaviour that arise when a new worker turns up – themes more often associated with school. The industrial setting – a bottle plant in Chalons-sur-Saône – provides some terrific scenes of pounding machines and boiling glass, while strong acting from the two leads Gérald Le Roche and an almost psychopathic Marc Bardé make for convincingly ambiguous cinema. In French.
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Josef Breitenbach
June 8, 2010Edinburgh gets the first British showing of rarely seen portraits of famous artists and writers snapped by German-American photographer Josef Breitenbach in the 30s.
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Enemy At The Gates
June 1, 2010A strong young Brit cast – Jude Law, Rachel Weisz, Joseph Fiennes – lead the way in the most expensive European film ever made, a war epic about the siege of Stalingrad.
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Art and Time
May 29, 2010A not-so-brief history of time. This boldly-conceived exhibition brings together over 300 works that sweep across the visual and sound arts to tell the story of humanity’s changing perception of time. Mayan calendars and Egyptian water clocks dialogue with more contemporary art heavyweights – such as Pablo Picasso, Dennis Oppenheim and Bruce Nauman – while original music, film installations and even information technology pieces also form part of the richly textured journey.
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