Elevator Repair Service: Gatz
"Gatz" by New York based theatre company Elevator Repair Service is magnificent performance and one of my favourite theatre productions of all time.
The Wayward Cloud
The Wayward Cloud explores the expressive power of cinema and the plot is secondary to the atmosphere it paints so I won't attempt a summary.
China Contemporary at NAI
The organizers of the exhibition at the NAI have done well to focus exclusively on a number of young Chinese architectural practices. While their approaches vary they all share a critical and pragmatic attitude towards the challenges presented by the rapidly growing and changing Chinese cities.
Local Differences Global Impact
Local differences are among the main driving forces behind globalization.
Lady Vengeance
Lady Vengeance is just as thrilling as Oldboy. And like Oldboy it is a richly detailed movie that must be seen at least twice.
Henri Toulouse-Lautrec: Paris by Night
With over 300 lithographs, posters, paintings, gouaches and drawings the exhibition Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: Paris at Night at the Kunsthal, Rotterdam is not to be missed.
Bettina Rheims at the Kunsthal
The Bettina Rheims retrospective at the Kunsthal in Rotterdam is pretty standard fare in so far as photography exhibitions go. Photographs that were previously published in magazines or books are printed at monumental size as if to emphasize that they deserve to be exhibited in a museum or gallery.
Johan Simons: Platform
The performance was good, the actors were great and I really liked the stage design. And yet, as I type this, I wonder why I wasn't completely struck.
Dada at the Centre Pompidou
This exhibition at the Centre Pompidou is probably one of the most comprehensive surveys of Dada ever.
The Best Albums of 2005
And the song of the year is Losing My Edge by LCD Soundsystem.