A blog on Newcastle Arts and Culture, Cinema and Life.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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