Anna Beketova explores one of Leeds’ top attractions and unearths some of its artistic delights, including the current ‘In Cloud Country: Abstracting from Nature’ exhibition Next weekend if you find yourself craving some more aesthetic stimulus than the […]
Dance | The Dark Angel
3/5 stars April 11 Joss Arnott Dance Stanley and Audrey Burton Theatre, Northern Ballet The Dark Angel Tour, created and choreographed by Joss Arnott, promises a triple bill of dance exploring the human body […]
Theatre | Our Class
4/5 stars stage@leeds Leeds Theatre Group Society April 20 Director Jocelyn Cheek has taken a risk with her first production, choosing not only a foreign play by Tadeusz Slobodzianek, but also one about the […]
A Day in the Life of a Curator
Leeds Student’s Zosia Gamgee catches up with Pavel Pyś, Exhibitions and Display Curator at the Henry Moore Institute, to discuss his work as a young curator in one of the UK’s most competitive artistic fields LS: Thank you very much for talking […]
London Marathon a fitting tribute to Boston
Stephen Topping London Marathon Sunday’s eventful London Marathon formed a fitting tribute to the three killed and over 170 injured in the tragic Boston bombings just six days earlier. A 30 second silence was impeccably […]
A Closer Look At… Abstract Expressionism
Moving firmly away from the past, works of art that culminate to create the movement we call Abstract Expression focus primarily on the notions of the ‘new’ and the active role of the artist. With […]
Marmite Thatcher
‘Ding! Dong! The witch is dead!’ ‘Which old witch?’ I hear you ask. It is an interesting question indeed. If we have learnt anything from the aftermath of the death of Margaret Thatcher, […]
Boston: The Hypocrisy
Over the last couple of days, mainstream news organisations have focused their gaze on Boston and the police manhunt for the perpetrators of the marathon bombings. Immediately following the events, Twitter and the news were […]
The Secret Curriculum
We are all commodities. All of us. Our value is dictated by someone we have never met, and by people we do not know. We are all faceless, anonymous tools, to be used at will […]
Snooker prepares for the return of the Rocket
Jamie Kirby World Snooker Championships Upon hearing the news that Ronny ‘The Rocket’ O’Sullivan would be taking a long-term sabbatical from snooker in November, the revision timetables of many students began to look even more […]
Leeds end season with Stirling performance
26/04/2013 David Smith The Leeds Men’s 1st team was apprehensive ahead of their Premier League playoff against Stirling University – the top tennis university in the country. However, there were some positive aspects to […]
‘We’re Leeds United, we’re passing the ball!’
Kyle Hulme Leeds United Well, I had to start with that in the title or “He’s Brian McDermott, he looks like an egg”. Either way, both chants are examples of the wave of optimism that […]