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theartsdesk an essential site of 2009: BBC Radio 5 LiveFriday, 01 January 2010theartsdesk received a New Year's gift last night when we were given a significant accolade from BBC Radio 5 Live. In Web 2009 with Helen and Olly, the station's podcasters and self-styled "internet obsessives" Helen Zaltzman and Olly Mann... Read more... |
New Year Birthdays on the TubeSaturday, 26 December 2009A series celebrating musicians' birthdays. 30 December 1910: Enough of all the seasonal jollity. With any luck, yours was more real than forced. The other side of New Years is, for many of us, a certain existential panic. What happened to the last... Read more... |
Boxing Day Bloat: theartsdesk recommendsSaturday, 26 December 2009
The morning after the day before has dawned. If you're not inclined to join the shopping queues, theartsdesk is happy to suggest alternatives. Our writers recommend all sorts of cultural things you could get up to in the next week.See Wicked. This... Read more... |
A Merry Little Christmas Eve: theartsdesk recommendsThursday, 24 December 2009
As we all have only one shopping day left, theartsdesk hopes to make Christmas Eve a little easier by offering a few enlightened recommendations. From our writers on new and classical music, opera and ballet, film and comedy, here is a list of CDs... Read more... |
Noche de Rabanos, Oaxaca, MexicoWednesday, 23 December 2009
Tonight, 23 December, is a significant night for culture in Oaxaca, Mexico – it’s the Noche de Rabanos. The Night of the Radishes. Thousands of people descend into the zocalo to witness sculptures carved from extremely large radishes, especially... Read more... |
Birthdays on the Tube, 13-19 DecemberSaturday, 12 December 2009A continuing series celebrating musicians' birthdays. 16 December 1899: Noel Coward, sharing a birthday with Beethoven, an early English rapper of the silk polka dot dressing gown and cigarette holder school. {youtube width="400" height="300"}... Read more... |
The Cultural Highlights of the Decade, BBC OnlineFriday, 11 December 2009
This week the BBC News online magazine is running a Portrait of the Decade. Each day has brought a consideration of the words, the events, the people, the objects and, today, the cultural highlights of the decade. I was invited to consider those... Read more... |
Richard Wright wins the 2009 Turner PrizeTuesday, 08 December 2009
Richard Wright's work celebrates impermanence but his election last night as the 2009 Turner Prize winner - an award which brings with it a purse of £25,000 - has guaranteed it a sort of immortality. The Glasgow-based painter's major piece currently... Read more... |
British Independent Film AwardsSunday, 06 December 2009
Sir Michael Caine and Daniel Day Lewis were the headline honorees at the 12th British Independent Film Awards in London last night, while Moon, an ultra low-budget sci-fi movie directed by Duncan Jones, David Bowie's son, was named Best Film. The... Read more... |
Birthdays on the Tube, 6-12 DecemberSaturday, 05 December 2009An ongoing series celebrating musicians' birthdays. 12 December 1944: The unprepossessing-looking Rob Tyner was the lead singer of the MC5, who along with The Stooges were Detroit's finest rock bands. The best evocation I've come across of the era... Read more... |
Birthdays on the Tube, 29 November-5 DecemberSaturday, 28 November 2009An ongoing series celebrating musicians' birthdays. 2 December 1982: Britney Spears is 27. There is some resistance to Britney hereabouts, so I thought I'd post a version of "Toxic" sung acoustically by Galia Arad to demonstrate that she does have... Read more... |
Jeremy Deller on The Posters Came From The WallsSaturday, 28 November 2009
"Depeche Mode," says Jeremy Deller, "have always been seen as a bit naff in this country, at least in the media. They could never shake off the image of their earliest Top Of The Pops appearances, so no matter how musically exploratory they got,... Read more... |
