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Jay James Picton: Heads vs. Hearts

Every man and his dog are making EPs these days, crowding the new music scene with tasters and teasers for the discerning listeners to plough through, and presenting the artists with the challenge of grabbing people’s increasingly wavering attention. So when we saw that Jay James Picton was grabbing the mutt by the nuts and... Read more

What’s On: ‘Surviving Life’ x ICA

  • Institute of Contemporary Arts, The  Mall

“I’ve always wanted to make a film in which dream blends with reality, and vice-versa. As Georg Christoph Lichtenberg tells us, only the fusion of dream and reality can make up a complete human life. Sadly, our civilization has no time for dreams. There’s no money in them.” Jan Svankmajer With a quote like that... Read more

Exclusive trailer: The Art of Darkness

You’ll remember we popped along to the CSM NOVA awards last week. The winner, Isak Akerlund has made this amazing trailor of his winning film, exclusively for Art Wednesday. Sit back, relax and watch the magic happen. The film is available to view until 17 December at the Windows Gallery, Central Saint Martins, The Granary, 1 Granary Square,... Read more

Blood Relations

We don’t like to get too involved with politics here at Art Wednesday, but we do like to make a special effort to promote creativity that can help bring people together and make a difference to people’s lives. We therefore thought it was important to share a short film with you. Saatchi & Saatchi Israel... Read more

Free Range 2011: The Preview

  • 02 Jun 2011 – 25 Jul 2011
  • The Old Truman Brewery, 91-95 Brick Lane

Tonight sees the preview of Free Range, the enormous graduate art & design exhibition down at the Truman Brewery, and we’d suggest it’s in your interests to pop along. Not only is it a fantastic chance to see the work of the individuals who will doubtless prove to be the industry’s up-and-comers and movers-and-shakers before... Read more

Harmony Korine x James Franco

You can consider our interest piqued once again in the project Harmony Korine‘s undertaking with actor James Franco – the thinking man or woman’s crumpet, assuming he or she doesn’t think too hard about his performance in the Spiderman films – by these black and white behind-the-scenes images by photographer Adarsha Benjamin, which have been... Read more

We Met Alexandra McGuinness

Words by Emily Steer. This Monday, we were lucky enough to wrangle 30 minutes of conversation with rising star and first time film director Alexandra McGuinness, whose soon-to-be-released film ‘Lotus Eaters’ features at this month’s Tribeca film festival, and focuses on a group of bright young things trapped in a repetitive cycle of booze, parties,... Read more

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