Michael Lyons: Freeze Frame, at the Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, explores Lyons’ sculptural practice and work during the 1970s through framed drawings, maquettes, archive photographs, newspaper clippings and the sculptures themselves. Lyons’ work takes […]
Review: Goosebumps – Scarily enjoyable
Remember the one about the abominable snowman of Pasadena? If you do, you’re in for a treat when Jack Black, playing a gloriously pantomime horror version of real-life Goosebumps series writer R.L Stine, brings almost […]
Art on Campus: Treasures of the Brotherton
If you’ve ever spent a prolonged period in the Brotherton library you will have noticed Special Collections, a double doorway on level 4 leading to the University’s collection of over 200,000 rare books and objects. […]
Object Lessons at The Henry Moore Institute
An ‘object lesson’ is a style of teaching popularised in British schools during the early nineteenth century. The idea is that students were presented with an object lesson box that acted as a sort of […]
2015: The year of the Box Office flop?
2015 has been a big year for the box office flop. Mega budget films have appeared in our cinemas and disappeared faster than you can say ‘Johnny Depp’s moustache in Mortdecai is creepy.’ The usual […]
Public Art on Campus: Mitzi Cunliffe – Man-Made Fibres
Stand beneath the bunting with your back to the union building and look up. Can you see it? Sitting proudly and high on the Clothworkers’ South building you will find Mitzi Cunliffe’s sculpture Man-Made Fibres; […]
Is Scout’s Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse as unoriginal as it sounds?
In a similar vein to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Zombie Strippers and KFZ (Kentucky Fried Zombies), recent cinematic release Scout’s Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse attempts to draw in hordes of unsuspecting victims to […]
Behind The Scenes: Curating the WWI Exhibition
Documenting World War I and capturing it in a new and exciting exhibition is no easy feat just one year after the centenary celebrations saw every museum, gallery and cultural organisation in the country commemorating […]
Review: Jenufa
Leos Janácek Dir. Tom Cairns Conductor. Aleksander Markovic The 1904 story of Leos Janácek’s Jenufa would not look out of place in an Eastender’s Christmas special. Pregnant out of wedlock, Jenufa is caught up in […]
Is Ghostface The Greatest Horror Movie Killer?
As far as horror-comedies go you don’t get much better or original than Scream. The late Wes Craven’s seminal 1996 flick ticked all the right boxes and went on to bring back the horror genre […]
British Art Show 8
So you’ve heard about this grandly named art exhibition. You know it’s in Leeds, which is a fair start, yet what exactly it is has eluded you. Fear not, we’ve got you covered with everything […]
Ballet Black: where are all the black ballet dancers?
At a time of growing diversity in other arts sectors such as musical theatre and contemporary dance, classical ballet seems to have stood still. Stunted by tradition, habit and the expectations of a niche audience, […]