The State of the Arts

My review of the film PRIDE can be seen at http://www.thestateofthearts.co.uk/category/news-features/

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Review: Pride [15] (Matthew Warchus)

23 September 2014

‘Through a combination of nostalgia and hope, PRIDE is the ultimate feel good movie: a thoroughly British film that is the antithesis of the Hollywood blockbuster…’ Showing in selected cinemas, Madeleine Walton shares a review on this wonderful film…

Open Mic at Bank Street

This evening as a Guerrilla Writer I read Plato's Republic in the Open Mic as part of Art as Political Expression at Bank Street.

A Monument to the Unread

My last day reading at Bank Street as part of A Monument to the Unread.

A Monument to the Unread

Today I have been down at Bank Street reading Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez in support of Robert Good's residency.

I also read Sue Townsend's The Secret Diary of Adrain Mole Aged 133/4.

A Monument to the Unread

Another day and another reading down at Bank Street. Today it was George Eliot's Middlemarch.

A Monument to the Unread

Another reading session down at Bank Street for A Monument to the Unread.

A Monument to the Unread

Today I have been down at Bank Street reading Judith Butler's Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" as part of Robert Good's residency.

A Monument to the Unread

A Monument to the Unread : Robert Good at Bank Street Arts Sheffield

As a member of the Guerrilla Writers I am supporting Robert Good's residency at Bank Street Arts. 

People have nominated books that they failed to read.

On Saturday 5th September I read Tolstoy's War & Peace at Bank Street Arts,

 You can confess your own unread book at: http://robertgood.co.uk/confess/

As part of the act of absolution Guerrilla Writers will be reading from those confessed unread texts throughout the residency.

Yorkshire Sculpture Park

I have just visited the YSP where I saw great work by Ai Weiwei in the Chapel.

I also saw an exhibition by Ursula von Rydingsvard.

This work was huge and entitled Mama Build Me a Fence. From a distance it appears to be marks drawn on wood when you get closer you discover the marks are carved in the wood. Quite exquisite!

Untitled (Stacked Blankets) look intriguing and even more so when you discover they are made of Cows' intestines.