Archive | July, 2012
Quentin Blake

Quentin Blake’s As Large As Life at the Laing Art Gallery

The Laing Art Gallery is currently hosting a whimsical exhibition of ink and watercolour illustrations by none other than Quentin Saxby Blake entitled As Large As Life. Commissioned for display in healthcare centres, these images provide a much-needed dose of innocence and joy, hoping to make the whole healthcare experience just a little bit more pleasant for all involved. Roald Dahl without Quentin [...]

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Kimberley’s Capital Punishment Book Launch

Last Tuesday I went to my first ever book launch. Although, it wasn’t a book launch in the traditional sense because it was actually a film screening, with the bookish parts squeezed in before the film began. Nevertheless, it was my first time, and unlike another memorable first, I really enjoyed it and look forward [...]

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A Child’s Eye View: Moonrise Kingdom

On the release of Moonrise Kingdom, some random London-based film critic made the following comment on Twitter, “Oh, I see Wes Anderson has made ‘his film’ again.” Ordinarily, a theatrical grimace and a swift tap of the ‘unfollow’ button is enough to remove Twitter-based annoyances from my life, but for some reason this bloke really [...]

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‘Complicades’: Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo Exhibition Bowes Museum

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. In the ‘most fascinating creative couples’ stakes, these two are up there with Virginia Woolf and her lady-lover Vita Sackville-West, Pablo Picasso and Dora Maars or even tragic scribes Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Resolutely political in their public lives and brilliantly controversial in their private lives, the marriage (and [...]

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