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The New Space for Arts Coverage
The New Space for Arts Coverage
First reactions to the arrival of The Arts Desk
Tuesday, 29 September 2009
"theartsdesk.com is a really exciting new development for all arts consumers, journalists, promoters, movers and shakers"
"The Arts Desk is a bloody good read, and tasting nice and reliable"
"The line-up of writers is already so distinguished"
"A daily must-visit, I’d have thought"
"It is exciting to see theartsdesk.com using advancing technologies to cover the arts in new and innovative ways"
"Brill
iant content, very impressive list of contributors and a much needed counterpart to the shrinking of arts coverage in the printed media"
"Pages like this are the future of arts journalism. BIG-UP!"
Since launching on 9/9/9, theartsdesk.com has won the arts community's praise as the most exciting development in arts media for a long time, the first professionally produced arts site in Britain.
What it offers is different, richer, faster and more direct than print arts - overnight reviews, in-depth features, unusually revealing interviews, a new approach that integrates film, visuals and audio into the writing, to make a whole new sensory experience of reading about art.
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Blue Lights Series 2, BBC One review - still our best cop show despite a slacker structure
The engaging Belfast cops are less tightly focused this time around
DVD/Blu-Ray: Priscilla
The disc extras smartly contextualise Sofia Coppola's eighth feature
Jonn Elledge: A History of the World in 47 Borders review - a view from the boundaries
Enjoyable journey through the byways of how lines on maps have shaped the modern world
Sabine Devieilhe, Mathieu Pordoy, Wigmore Hall review - enchantment in Mozart and Strauss
Leading French soprano shines beyond diva excess
Špaček, BBC Philharmonic, Bihlmaier, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester review - three flavours of Vienna
Close attention, careful balancing, flowing phrasing and clear contrast
Banging Denmark, Finborough Theatre review - lively but confusing comedy of modern manners
Superb cast deliver Van Badham's anti-incel barbs and feminist wit with gusto
Album: Fred Hersch - Silent, Listening
A 'nocturnal' album - or is it just plain dark?
Music Reissues Weekly: Linda Smith - I So Liked Spring, Nothing Else Matters
The reappearance of two obscure - and great - albums by the American musical auteur
London Tide, National Theatre review - haunting moody river blues
New play-with-songs version of Dickens’s 'Our Mutual Friend' is a panoramic Victori-noir
Watts, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Bignamini, Barbican review - blazing French masterpieces
Poulenc’s Gloria and Berlioz’s 'Symphonie fantastique' on fire
The Songs of Joni Mitchell, Roundhouse review - fans (old and new) toast to an icon of our age
A stellar line up of artists reimagine some of Mitchell’s most magnificent works
Fantastic Machine review - photography's story from one camera to 45 billion
Love it or hate it, the photographic image has ensnared us all
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