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Issue 263 |
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Your cultural event guide
Here's a snapshot of our favorite things to do in London this week. |
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As far as our friends and colleagues across the Pond are concerned, there's only one story in town: barring a Lazarus-style return from the dead by John McCain, the next president of the USA is going to be Barack Obama. Personally, a dream team of our own Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross would get vote; Ross for his questionable suits and Brand for his State of the Union address. (And while we're on the subject, am I alone in my incredulity at the furore surrounding their prank phone calls? "Storm" and "teacup" spring to mind.) Still, whatever the outcome in the States, we'll at least be spared the car-crash scenario of 2 November 2004 when Dubya was amazingly, inexplicably re-elected. Doh!
- Kieran Wyatt, Managing Editor
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SPECIAL FEATURE
The Campaign Trail
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Our sister publication Activate goes inside the numbers with political uber-junkie Christopher Hayes, the Washington, DC editor for The Nation. In our exclusive interview, Hayes offers insights on Obama's sophisticated ground game, where a broken-down Republican party might head and the long-forgotten reasoning behind US voting on a Tuesday.
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Leandro Erlich
Amazing audiences with whimsical installations, sculptures and videos.
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ART: Photography
Jacqui Bellamy: Latrino Gals
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Tuesday 4 Nov 2008 (7–11pm)
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The FleaPit (49 Columbia Road, E2, 020.7033.9986) Tube: Bethnal Green
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Jacqui Bellamy's debut solo exhibition was unusually created by loitering in women's toilets night after night. Pixelwitch Pictures snapper Bellamy realised cubicles made the perfect picture frames to capture female partygoers beautifying themselves in the Ladies at club events such as Lost Vagueness and Razor Stiletto. Latrino Gals, the resulting series of portraits, includes those dressed-up for a night out as well as shots of more outrageously attired women taken behind usually closed doors.
- Lucy Davies
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US Election Live!
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Tuesday 4 Nov 2008 (8pm–6am)
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The Sun and Doves (61-63 Coldharbour Lane, SE5, 020.7733.1525) Tube: BR: Denmark Hill, Loughborough Junction
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Camberwell's Sun and Doves pub lays on an all-nighter of bitten fingernails, high-octane TV coverage and chilli dogs as the electoral catfight between Obama and McCain reaches its era-defining climax. The session opens with an 8pm screening of Brokeback Mountain (2005) to get emotions running high; later on, the no-doubt lengthy and controversial vote-counting process will be aided by lashings of light beer and hot coffee. The elections are well worth staying up for, whether a pitbull in lipstick or Mr Blueprint for Change ends up with the nuclear-launch codes.
- Oliver Spall
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FILM
Le Sang d'un Poete (1932)
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Wednesday 5 Nov 2008 (8pm)
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Camden Arts Centre (Arkwright Road, NW3, 020.7472.5500) Tube: Finchley Road, Hampstead
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Although Le Sang d'un Poete (The Blood of a Poet) is best known for photographer Lee Miller's only cinematic appearance, it was also French writer Jean Cocteau's directorial debut. The movie remains an artistic affair despite Cocteau's assertion that "film will only become art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper". Among the avant-garde series of surreal tableaux are a child pulling faces at a dead body, a poet smashing a statue and a cameo by legendary Texan drag-queen aerialist Barbette.
- Lucy Davies
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ART: Photography
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2008
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Thursday 6 Nov 2008 (10am–9pm)
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National Portrait Gallery (St Martin's Place, WC2, 020.7306.0055) Tube: Charing Cross, Leicester Square
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This year's Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery includes a shot of Rupert Murdoch competing against a face in a plastic-bag bonnet. The exhibition, which will soon tour the UK, features 60 contemporary images whittled down from thousands entered worldwide. From reportage to fine art and editorial, the exhibition includes contributions from Dutch artist Hendrik Kerstens, photojournalist Tom Stoddart, Lottie Davies and Catherine Balet. Subjects explored in the quest for a £12,000 cash prize include quintuplet pregnancy, technology, environmental debates concerning plastic bags and, of course, competitive media magnates.
- Natalie Liechti
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MORE FLAVOR: City Gem
Natural History Museum Ice Rink
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Thursday 6 Nov 2008
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Natural History Museum (Cromwell Road, SW7, 020.7942.5000) Tube: Gloucester Road, South Kensington
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The freezing of the Natural History Museum's atmospheric East Lawn for skating has become a festive sight to rival the West End's Christmas lights. The rink is now in its fourth year and its rituals are firmly established: ticket holders head onto the ice in hourly slots. Twinkling trees, Christmas stalls and mulled wine prove to the incredulous that Saint Nick's busy season is fast approaching. A smaller rink for young skaters frees up the ice and reduces the chances of being skate-shamed, or even de-digited, by a precocious pirouetting six-year-old.
- Helen Dewar
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The café-bar and Christmas stalls are open to non ticket-holders.
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ART
Signs
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Friday 7 Nov 2008 (11am–6pm)
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Tatty Devine (236 Brick Lane, E2, 020.7739.9191) Tube: Old Street, Bethnal Green
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Lo-tech cut 'n paste artist Mark Pawson breaks away from his usual fayre of postcards, badges and rubber stamps decorated with phrases and cartoons to bring 12 limited-edition ready-to-hang Perspex signs to Tatty Devine. Previous works contained advice such as "Wear More Badges" and "Never Throw Anything Away Ever" and these latest signs similarly range from the instructive to the whimsical. A range of necklaces and brooches is also available to buy for those who prefer Pawson's art on their bodies rather than their walls.
- Anna-Marie Fitzgerald
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MUSIC: Electronic
Mucha Marcha present Bomb the Bass
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Friday 7 Nov 2008 (8pm–2:30am)
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Proud Camden (The Stables Market, Chalk Farm Road, NW1, 020.7482.3867) Tube: Camden Town, Chalk Farm
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Bomb the Bass, aka Tom Simenon, makes a comeback at Proud Camden's Mucha Marcha night 21 years after influential single "Beat Dis" helped kick-start DJ culture and the UK acid-house scene. BTB will showcase material from recently released LP Future Chaos; while the album is more tamed and pop-orientated than previous work, it is still able to create a megablast. Support comes from rockers Little Death and DJs Transformer, the Clik Clik and Russ Tannen.
- Graziela Pancheri
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PERFORMING ARTS: Cabaret/Burlesque
The Wam Bam Club
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Saturday 8 Nov 2008 (7–10pm)
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Soho Revue Bar (11 Walker's Court, W1, 020.7439.4089) Tube: Piccadilly Circus
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At this evening's Wam Bam Club, Lady Alex hosts a rabble of wayward entertainment and wickedly outrageous carousing. The unholy union of magic, music, comedy and burlesque includes tenor Pavabotti and his revealing interpretations of timeless classics such as O Sole (Strippo) Mio; '60s vixen Agent Lynch; Lili la Scala; and funnyman Boy With Tape on His Face. Before the performances, free burlesque classes offer a taster of tease to those who dare to bare.
- Natalie Liechti
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Man Make Man Winter Special
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Saturday 8 Nov 2008 (8pm–2:30am)
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The Last Days of Decadence (145 Shoreditch High Street, E1, 020.7729.2896) Tube: Old Street
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Man Make Music's new monthly residency at The Last Days of Decadence sees them grow up a little and lay their warehouse raves to rest. MMM nights are always jam-packed with an unpretentious crowd who know their synth-stabs from their hi-hats. They will be surely be satisfied with tonight's inaugural headliner: Petter is a 20-year-old Swedish DJ and producer whose quirky take on techno got him signed to James Holden's Border Community label. Stoking the vibes beforehand with anything from dubstep to prog are resident DJs Sketchy, Another Amit and Noel Mas.
- Katherine Yazhari
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MUSIC: Electronic
Anne Clark
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Sunday 9 Nov 2008 (6pm)
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The Underworld (174 Camden High Steet, NW1, 020.7482.1932) Tube: Camden Town
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Experimental, avant-garde poetess Anne Clark returns to showcase The Smallest Acts Of Kindness, her first studio LP for 13 years. The album, from the woman behind classics "Sleeper In Metropolis" and "Our Darkness", sticks to the same formula of dense atmospheric electronica and jaded, melancholic lyrics. Topics recounted in Clark's spoken-word style range from the evil side of mankind to politics and everyday life. The ladies from Client open the night with their distinctive dark synth sonics and military air.
- Graziela Pancheri
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ART
Demons, Yarns & Tales
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Monday 10 Nov 2008
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The Dairy (7 Wakefield Street, WC1, 020.7278.1185) Tube: Russell Square
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Three years ago, arts group Banners of Persuasion commissioned 15 artists to revive the lost art of wall-hanging tapestry. Today sees the fruits of their labour. Turner Prize winner Grayson Perry looks to images associated with the contentious "war on terror", creating something akin to the Bayeux Tapestry's battlefield chronicles. Turning to the dark history of America's racial segregation, Kara Walker transforms her powerful silhouettes to threaded form, depicting nightmarish images of the American Civil War. Meanwhile, Beatriz Milhazes captures flowers in bloom, and Gary Hume renders his wife's likeness. These ceiling-high creations find the perfect venue in Express Dairy's old milk depot in Bloomsbury.
- Helen Holtom
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PERFORMING ARTS: Opera
The Cumnor Affair
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Monday 10 Nov 2008 (7:45pm)
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Riverside Studios (Crisp Road, W6, 020.8237.1111) Tube: Hammersmith
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The Cumnor Affair is a whodunit with a difference: an operatic murder mystery set in Elizabethan England. The atmospheric tale of intrigue has been brought to the stage by novelist Iain Pears, opera company Tête à Tête and the Royal Academy of Music's Phillip Cashian. It's 1560 and the dead body of Amy Roberts is found in stately Cumnor Place while her swindling spouse, Robert Earl of Dudley, is away romping with Her Majesty. As the questions pile up, so too does the drama in a stirring synthesis of contemporary opera and traditional theatre.
- Natalie Liechti
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ART
Katie Paterson
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Tuesday 4 Nov 2008 (9am–5:30pm)
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Albion (8 Hester Road, SW11, 020.7801.2480) Tube: BR: Battersea Park
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Katie Paterson's fresh batch of conceptual works at Albion Gallery follows up her previous exhibition which featured a live phone link to Europe's largest glacier, Vatnajokull. The Scottish artist uses science and sound in characteristically audacious fashion to imagine far-flung territories without the usual visual stimulus. The exhibition's centrepiece is the grand piano "moon bounce" project: a Morse-code message is rebounded off the moon via radio transmission, re-transcribed and played back onto the ivory keys.
- Natalie Liechti
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ART
30,000 Years of Cryptomnesia
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Saturday 8 Nov 2008 (noon–6pm)
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The Horse Hospital (Colonnade, WC1, 020.7833.3644) Tube: Russell Square
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30,000 Years of Cryptomnesia explores the age-old theory of cryptomnesia — the brain passsing off a hidden memory as a new inspiration. Five young artists take over the Horse Hospital's Chamber of Pop Culture to explore this involuntary plagiarism with a cornucopia of mystical artefacts displayed on handcrafted wood structures. Objects featured include felt and woollen creations alluding to pagan rituals and ancient musical instrument the Spiritcatcher. This Celtic zither features in a free performance by artist Joseph Lewis on Friday 28 November, with support from black metal band Whitby Bay.
- Helen Holtom
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Editors
MANAGING EDITOR
Kieran Wyatt
DEPUTY EDITOR
Joe Rudkin
SENIOR EDITORS
Jake Lancaster
Doug Levy
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Lucy Davies
Natalie Liechti
Helen Holtom
Graziela Pancheri
Andrew Phillips
Lisa Rosman
IMAGE EDITORS
Adda Birnir
Tom Starkweather
PUBLISHERS
Sascha Lewis
Mark Mangan
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