Focus on Gus Van Sant

Until now ‘residencies’ were only given to has-been DJs and bad jazz bands by pubs and bars that didn’t know any better. However, as...

Lou Reed sang that Andy Warhol's diaries "were not a worthy epitaph" for his life's work. Warhol was constantly claiming his own blank simplicity...

John Foxx’s bucolic audio-visual collage in Tiny Moving Pictures reflects his entire career. His past musical and cinematic influences, from Ultrovox...

Buying is the new stealing. Forget any preconceptions that you had about file-sharing and embrace Mazar, the new site that seeks to aid up and coming...

Everything seems to be on such a large scale at this time of year - the crowds, the carols, the trees - that we thought it made sense to preview one of...

We feel pretty dubious about all this hipster anthropology shit, but this book has some serious credentials. Photographer Peter Beste apparently spent...

If you, like Kate Hannaford of MOTH Design, were opening a temporary fashion retail and exhibition space in an old city warehouse, would you call it ‘MOTH...

Deep breath. Okay. Standard Operating Procedure is a horror film first and documentary second.

Too many documentaries are mediocre films on amazing...

By no means are these shoes cheap, nor are they practical. In fact, they aren’t classic, “go-with-anything” or “wear-everyday”...

If folklore has taught us anything, the woods are enchanted and hold lessons to learn. Snow White sought refuge by hitching her gown and bolting for the...

They've released four 7-inches, five CDs and two LPs, 16 tours, travelled the world, done a soundtrack for a puppet show... performed on street corners...

By mid-2004 it seemed that if a band was touted as the “next big thing from Williamsburg” it would be a sure sign to avoid them. Amongst the...

That heavy weight we feel when we walk into a gallery? Ignore that; that's the white elephant of theory and history that squats grossly in the corner...

Popeye has always been a popular sailor man with great tatts, but the guy just couldn’t accessorise. Luckily, you don’t have to chug a can...

Like P-plate drivers, many of us refuse to believe that we are breakable. It takes moments of pain and legacies such as scars to remind us that flesh...

Catherine Breillat is best known for her films A Ma Soeur! and Romance. If you're a Breillat fan you might have attended last year's Focus on Catherine...

There was an exhibition. It is still on actually but David Shrigley did not come. He left us all in the lurch. He was torn apart by a beast with four...

Ever since Robert H. Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket from his Aunt Effie’s farm in Massachusetts, man has been launching animals...

Limited to only 1000 copies on vinyl this slugish slice of psychedelic disco is the debut offering from King Kung Foo records, a brand new label from...