Barnaby Dicker is a filmmaker and scholar. He holds a doctorate in avant-garde cinematography. In his films he explores thresholds of legibility and liminality and links between structure and process. In 2004, he worked with Sound Affairs creating a number of short videos for the Raw Goods tour that year. His film, Devolution (2008), a… [Read more…]
September 28, 2011
Andy was born in Fife, and danced with Fife Youth Dance Company before going to the Laban Centre for Movement and Dance inLondon. He went on to work with a number of dance companies including Transitions Dance Company, Diversions, Scottish Opera, Scottish Dance Theatre and Dundee Rep Dance Company before being appointed Dance Director for… [Read more…]
September 28, 2011
Charlie Barber has a deserved reputation for bringing innovative productions to audiences throughout the world. His prolific output as a composer, and talent for combining disparate musical influences and genre, have brought him acclaim and recognition outside his native Wales, making him a ‘hot to watch’ for audiences and critics alike. He has worked in… [Read more…]
September 23, 2011
Ockeghem was one of the most respected composers of the fifteenth century, and along with Guillaume Dufay & Josquin Desprez, one of the most influential composers of the early Renaissance. Ockeghem was born in the French-speaking province of Hainaut, in the town of Saint-Ghislain, according to recent definitive research. It had at one time been surmised that he… [Read more…]
September 23, 2011
The Frugal Genius By Cammy Brothers Michelangelo was a notorious miser. He drew on every scrap he found around his studio, only on rare occasions beginning a drawing on a fresh sheet (typically when the sheet was intended for a patron’s eyes). He drew incessantly, so that while the drawings that are most widely reproduced… [Read more…]
September 23, 2011
The Battle of Cascina took place on July 28 1364 and celebrates the Florentine victory over it’s bitter rival, Pisa. The Republic of Florence had decided to decorate it’s prestigious new hall of state with paintings on a grand scale (at the time of the commissions in 1504 Florence and Pisa were still locked in… [Read more…]
September 22, 2011
Throughout much of history, the nude male figure was virtually the only subject that could be used to articulate homoerotic desire in publicly displayed works of art. In most cases, representations of nude males were intended to embody the spiritual and political ideals of the societies in which they were produced. Only rarely were erotic… [Read more…]
September 19, 2011
Josquin Desprez (c.1440/55-1521) is widely regarded as one of the finest and most influential composers in the history of Western music. The stylistic traits of his music, both in contrapuntal technique and in text-setting, gave the defining direction to the High Renaissance and with it the course of music history as a whole. Not only… [Read more…]
September 15, 2011
A small sketch from Michelangelo’s Battle of Cascina will go under the hammer in July. But why did he portray a scene of conflict with a drawing of nude men? It is said that the last fragments of Michelangelo‘s great cartoon, or full-scale preparatory drawing, of The Battle of Cascina were treasured – in the 1560s – by… [Read more…]
September 15, 2011
Michelangelo’s marble statue of David and his frescoes on the vault of the Sistine Chapel are among the most widely recognized examples of Italian Renaissance art, and their maker the most famous artist who ever lived. By sixteenth-century standards Michelangelo lived to the exceptionally old age of almost eighty-nine, and he continued to work until… [Read more…]
September 28, 2011
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