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Your cultural event guide
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Shed a tear or two for the city's clubbers on Saturday, when long-time institution Turnmills finally closes its doors. After innumerable cracking nights at their family-run venue — the Chemical Brothers' Heavenly Social residency, the Gallery's amazing decade-long run, those messy Trade sessions — the Newman clan are being turfed out by landlords who want to turn the space into offices (as if London doesn't have enough of those already). But musical hedonism and communal freakouts don't have to end with Turnmills — we suggest you keep the spirit alive this week at the Electroacoustic Club, Fabric's Adventures in the Beetroot Field and the TrailerTrash car-park rave.
- Kieran Wyatt, Managing Editor
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SPECIAL FEATURE
The Torture Debate
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State democracy itself is at fault for perpetuating modern "clean" torture, says political-science professor Darius Rejali in his new book Torture and Democracy. Our sister publication Activate spoke with Rejali about the history of torture and how its past suggests new perspectives on the current debate.
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MORE FLAVOR: Lecture
David A. Andelman: A Shattered Peace
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Tuesday 18 Mar 2008 (6:30–8pm)
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Louise T Blouin Institute (3 Olaf Street, W11, 020.7985.9600) Tube: Latimer Road
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David Andelman knows a thing or two about world affairs, having spent 30 years as a domestic and foreign correspondent for the New York Times, CNBC, and Bloomberg before taking his current job as executive editor of Forbes.com. His 2007 book A Shattered Peace poses a fascinating thesis — which the author shares in illuminating detail tonight — involving the flawed Versailles Treaty of 1919. When the victors divided the Great War's spoils, Andelman suggests, their actions had a ripple effect felt in more recent struggles including those in Iraq, Israel, Kosovo, and Vietnam.
- Joe Rudkin
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MORE FLAVOR: Discussion
The Fundamentals of Digital Art
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Tuesday 18 Mar 2008 (7:30pm)
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ICA (The Mall, SW1, 020.7930.3647) Tube: Charing Cross, Piccadilly Circus
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Tonight brings together some of the finest minds on digital technology, including writer and digital-art lecturer Richard Colson and computer artist James Faure Walker. The discussion looks at the rapidly changing landscape for artists in the age of digital reproduction, where the touch of a button can multiply, duplicate and distort images; but where the apparently limitless possibilities also bring shifting notions of authorship and value. The evening launches Colson's new book, Fundamentals of Digital Art, which draws on his meetings and conversations with artists across the globe.
- Helen Holtom
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ART: Photography
John Swannell
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Wednesday 19 Mar 2008 (10am–5:30pm)
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Chris Beetles Gallery (8 & 10 Ryder Street, SW1, 020.7839.7551) Tube: Green Park, Piccadilly Circus
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Over his 35-year career, photographer John Swannell has shot lakes and mountains across the globe, dramatic nudes and models showcasing the latest catwalk collections, but he's most famous for his photographs of well-known faces. These intimate portraits include royals (Diana laughing with the young princes), musicians (Pete Townshend leaning moodily against his guitar), artists (Gilbert & George in their Spitalfields home) and actors — one highlight is a particularly joyous shot of Sir John Gielgud jumping in the air.
- Lucy Davies
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MORE FLAVOR: Tour
Hoxton Village Walk
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Wednesday 19 Mar 2008 (11am–1pm)
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Museum of London (London Wall, EC2, 020.7600.3699) Tube: Barbican, St Paul's
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Long before the fashion designers and YBAs moved in, Hoxton was a hotbed of acting talent. It was the site of the capital's first professional theatre, and Shakespeare and Ben Jonson both performed their plays here. It was also the home of a Victorian music hall and hosted such luminaries as Alfred Hitchcock and James Mason at Gainsborough Pictures, the studio where Fanny by Gaslight (1944) and The Wicked Lady (1945) were filmed. This walk explores the area's rich, fascinating history, from the "Hogesdon" recorded in the Domesday Book to the nightlife mecca of today.
- Lucy Davies
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READING
Brand at Borders
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Thursday 20 Mar 2008 (6:30–7:30pm)
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Borders (120 Charing Cross Road, WC2) Tube: Covent Garden, Tottenham Court Road
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Creative-writing magazine Brand presents an evening of literary treats. Master storyteller and 2004 Whitbread award winner Ali Smith reads from her new novel, Girl Meets Boy, a reinterpretation of Ovid's tale of sapphic love transported into a modern world of corporate greed and tartan-clad eco-warriors. If this gets your imagination going, listen up for a monologue by political US playwright Naomi Wallace followed by poetry readings from Brand's latest issue. This event is capped by a Q&A session with the writers.
- Helen Holtom
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MUSIC: Electronic
Adventures in the Beetroot Field present Neon Neon w/ Four Tet, Chrome Hoof and Erol Alkan
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Thursday 20 Mar 2008 (9:30pm–5am)
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Fabric (77a Charterhouse Street, EC1, 020.7336.8898) Tube: Farringdon
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Neon Neon is the latest project from Gruff Rhys (of Super Furry Animals fame) and Boom Bip, who provides the slick electro beat mastery for their debut UK performance at Fabric. Rhys' goofed-out lyrics slide over '80s-infused synth odysseys and Bon Jovi-style snares to confirm the duo's penchant for DeLoreans and Raquel Welch. Erol Alkan shares the bill, contributing his trademark rock edits to counter the fluorescent mist emanating from the other room, while freaky-beat electro-metallers Chrome Hoof warm up the crowd with a live set and Four Tet clobbers the decks with scrambled beats and free jazz. To cap off the proceedings, iPod diseuse George Pringle demurely hypothesises on Shoreditch's vicissitudes next door.
- Oliver Spall
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ART
Marc Horowitz: The Centre for Improved Living
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Friday 21 Mar 2008 (10am–6pm)
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Southbank Centre (Belvedere Road, SE1, 0871.663.2501) Tube: Embankment, Waterloo
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Almost 90 years after the Bauhaus design ideal was unveiled in Germany, comic-slash-artist Marc Horowitz brings a similar concept to London. Famed for his National Dinner Tour (in which he supped with people he'd never met), Horowitz now wants Londoners to live better — and he's on hand to help out, by running his own TV show, holding seminars and having people express themselves through t-shirts (his reads: "I suck at Ping Pong"). Whether it's a wry take on casual exhibitiongoers' demand for instant gratification or a truly brilliant better-living concept, it's worth the exploration.
- Helen Bagnall
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ART
Graffiti Express
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Friday 21 Mar 2008 (1–6pm)
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The Gallery at Willesden Green (95 High Road, NW10, 020.8459.1421) Tube: Willesden Green
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From the vandal tube bombs of Tox to the beloved stencilling of Banksy, graffiti is now both physically and culturally spread throughout London. With its newfound popular acceptance, the scene has become more complex, often mixing witty social commentary with abstract artistic explorations. For their own, typically accessible excursion into this domain, the artist-run Gallery at Willesden Green hand over blank canvases each day of the Easter break to three rising stars — Brixton Ghanaian Eugene Ankomah, Cornwall's Daryl Walker (aka Swiftie) and relative unknown Nick Butcher — who, unlike Banksy, make their art while we all watch.
- Joe Rudkin
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ART
Zoë Mendelson and Joel Tomlin: Oh Vienna
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Saturday 22 Mar 2008 (noon–6pm)
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Transition Gallery (Unit 25a Regent Studios, 8 Andrews Road, E8, 020.7254.4202) Tube: Bethnal Green
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Sigmund Freud's Interpretation of Dreams provided the overriding critical context for much of the 20th century's cultural output. Though the discipline Freud helped to invent has since disregarded many of his views, Zoë Mendelson and Joel Tomlin's joint exhibition exalts the bespectacled Austrian's influence on art. The show gets playful with history by whimsically foraging material: Tomlin harnesses raw tapestry canvas, luminescent colour and ethereal outlines to explore liminal states of consciousness, blurring distant memories with remembered dreams. By contrast, Mendelson's '20s kitchen cabinet, Scheherazade's Sideboard, utilises painted eggs, drawings, paintings and panoramas to analyse both meaning and medical "truth".
- Joe Rudkin
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MUSIC: Electronic
Warm Easter Special feat. Chateau Flight
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Saturday 22 Mar 2008 (9pm–4am)
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East Village (89 Great Eastern Street, EC2, 020.7739.5173) Tube: Old Street
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A bimonthly residency at East Village kicks Easter off early for the Warm Agency and their impressive roster of DJ talent. Topping the bill tonight is the debut UK live show for I:Cube and Gilb'r — better known as Chateau Flight. The Parisian production duo blew away the SonarPub courtyard crowd in Barcelona last year with a twisting, filtered disco-tech set that included 3am square-tooth synth anthem "Baltringue". Also appearing are three-deck Swiss techno DJ Sam Geiser (aka Deetron), whose 2006 debut LP is a cross-pollinating classic; Tiny Sticks' Mock & Toof, with buzz boogie aplenty; and Toby Tobias' twisted disco.
- Joe Rudkin
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MUSIC: Rock/Pop
The Sonics
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Sunday 23 Mar 2008 (7pm)
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The Forum (9-17 Highgate Road, NW5, 020.7428.4099) Tube: Kentish Town
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The Sonics — garage pioneers and notorious fuzz rockers — reunite more than 30 years after introducing their unconventional style to Europe. Often cited as the first punk band, these five Washington gentlemen create crude, deafening rock about girls, cars, Satan and psychopaths. Known for breaking amplifiers in order to make them sound "right" they also revolutionized the DIY approach to recording and playing. Live, they're a force to be reckoned with, as guitarist Larry Parypa creates a brutally distorted sound that complements lead singer Gerry Roslie's twisted vocals. Even if you're unfamiliar with their influence on later artists, this is an appreciation opportunity for the bold of heart.
- Oliver Spall
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The Paradise Show feat. the Count & Sinden w/ Ipso Facto
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Sunday 23 Mar 2008 (7:30pm–3am)
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Paradise by Way of Kensal Green (19 Kilburn Lane, W10, 020.8969.0098) Tube: Kensal Green, Ladbroke Grove
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Tonight, Paradise carries on its tradition of truly debauched bank-holiday parties. A massive line-up fills the seven uniquely dramatic spaces. Psychedelic, all-girl band Ipso Facto perform live (check out those perfect, identical coiffures!), and Fabric regulars the Count & Sinden play ahead of the launch of their incredibly catchy, electro-bouncy single "Beeper". There's also guitar-pop from Cazals, the kooky voice of Rosie Oddie, bluesy R&B from Son of Dave, and sultry burlesque performances. The party's theme is heaven and hell, so dress up in your Paradise Lost best: think cherubs, nymphs and fallen angels. Perfect for a divine and theatrical Easter evening.
- Zoe Boden
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FILM
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
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Monday 24 Mar 2008 (4pm)
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BFI Southbank (Belvedere Road, SE1, 020.7928.3232) Tube: Waterloo
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George Cukor's 1940 screwball classic has all the fixings of the perfect movie. From the Oscar-winning screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart to the ultimate dream triumvirate of Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart and Katharine Hepburn, <I>The Philadelphia Story</I> is a delightfully fast-talking, wise-cracking romp. The action centres on snarky socialite Tracy Lord's second marriage, and the chaos caused by members of her dysfunctional family when her ex-husband (Grant) reappears. Hepburn is at once hilarious and heartwarming in this gem of comedic filmmaking.
- Lucy Davies
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The South London BBQ w/ Rum Shebeen and Mouthwash
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Monday 24 Mar 2008 (5pm)
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Windmill Brixton (22 Blenheim Gardens, SW2, 020.8671.0700) Tube: Brixton
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If you've managed to make it through to Easter Monday with a full complement of faculties and some shillings left to spend, then the Windmill's upcoming-bands showcase is the ideal way to while away a day. For the smallest of banknotes you get six bands drawn from all around south London, plus a free barbeque. Highlights include Camberwell's promising Rum Shebeen playing good-time dub and ska (check their forthcoming single on 1965 Records, home of the View and the Metros); Mouthwash, who represent West Norwood with their urgent two-step; and local lads the Shanners, who provide tunes for all the garage-punk fans on the floor.
- Joe Rudkin
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ART
Tobias Till: As the Crow Flies
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Thursday 20 Mar 2008 (2–7pm)
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gallery12 (12 South Hill Park, NW3, 020.7435.7473) Tube: Hampstead Heath
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Although he lives and works in rural Oxfordshire, Tobias Till's artistic heart clearly lies in London. The Central School and Royal Academy art graduate's first London solo show is a collection of large-scale lino cuts exploring aspects of the capital's sprawling skyline. Though the prints are predominantly aerial snapshots of familiar places — five-a-side football and flyovers in West Way, Fulham hawkers in North End Road Market — something about the expressionistic use of colour and densely packed vistas of quotidian life invoke a bloodline of urban commentary that runs through the work of Samuel Johnson, William Hogarth and LS Lowry.
- Joe Rudkin
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ART
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art
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Tuesday 18 Mar 2008 (9am–11pm)
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Barbican Centre (Silk Street, EC2, 020.7638.8891) Tube: Barbican
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In Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, a group of (fictional) Martian curators hand-pick contemporary artworks by 115 Earthlings. As the "curators" aren't from around here, however, they incorrectly interpret the pieces as banal objects, rather than revered objects of art. Barbara Hepworth's shapely 1957 wooden sculpture Icon, Francis Upritchard's unsavory 2003 Cigarette Necklace, and Dr. Larka's gruesome severed hand — 2006's Untitled (alajero con mano) — are all misunderstood to be functional human tools, as hilarity (and cultural commentary) ensues.
- Lucy Davies
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