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
“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
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
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
A lot of things in life happen for a reason; there’s no explanation for it, shit just happens. Regular readers will remember that we were in L.A the other month at the Nike US Open of Surfing, which opened our eyes to the action sports arena in a big way. We returned to these fine... Read more
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
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
Did we mention already that we’re typography nerds here at AW? Well, it’s true – not even just in the sense that Comic Sans makes us queasy (it does), or that its oft-overlooked peer in ugliness, Papyrus, makes us want to stick needles in our eyes (again, it does), but in a way that might... Read more
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
Unless you’re eighty-five, a member of a tribe hitherto untouched by Western popular culture, or dead. you’ll probably have heard a Moby song. You know the ones: there was the one about his heart feeling bad, the one about bodies and the rocking thereof, the ethereal one with the dove in the video that made... Read more