Florence Hallett
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Florence writes about the visual arts for a range of specialist and general interest publications.
Articles By Florence Hallett
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Paradise, Disney+ review - enigmatic drama with an unknown d...
The latest from the This Is Us creator,...
Album: Guided By Voices – Universe Room
Tireless rockers Guided By Voices confidently play with sound throughout Universe Room, their eighteenth album in 10 years. Experimental...
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It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.
It followed some...
Hard Truths review - a bravura, hyperreal performance from M...
A colleague once told me that I shouldn’t take Mike Leigh’s films with contemporary settings as slices of everyday life. He was right: they’re...
Saturday Night review - a dizzying 90-minute trip to a landm...
“A countercultural sketch show full of unknowns, with no script, no structure.” The verdict of NBC’s head of talent about the embryonic...
Inside No 9: Stage Fright, Wyndham’s review - uneven fright-...
How excited Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton must have been to learn that the venue for their Inside No 9 stage show was...
Album: The Weeknd - Hurry Up Tomorrow
The Weeknd is a global megastar, one of the biggest music sensations of the age. Last year, his compilation, The Highlights, was the...
Brian and Maggie, Channel 4 review - Thatcherism's date...
The thesis underlying this two-part drama is that Brian Walden’s 1989 TV interview with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher marked the end of the...
Formal Sppeedwear, The Windmill review - Stoke-on-Trent trio...
As Stoke-on-Trent’s Formal Sppeedwear immerse themselves in what turns out to be their penultimate song, they become lost in the music. What they...