• Queer Perspectives 10

    Queer Perspectives 10

    For the past ten years Queer Perspectives at London’s National Portrait Gallery have invited guests  who identify as LGBTQI to select, discuss and highlight works in their Collections and beyond which have a personal resonance. This innovative and inclusive quarterly event hosted by artist and curator Sadie Lee is going to celebrate its diverse decade,…

  • An Inconvenient Sequel : Truth to Power.

    An Inconvenient Sequel : Truth to Power.

      It is ten years on from Al Gore’s Oscar winning documentary on how climate change is irrevocably destroying our planet, and this new sequel initially gives us hope that some quarters in the world may have taken some action based on the warnings, are mostly quashed by the time the end credits role. The…

  • Maddman : The Steve Madden Story

    Maddman : The Steve Madden Story

      In his sophomore feature, documentarian Ben Patterson would have us believe that Steve Madden, the man behind the shoe brand of the same name, is at worse, just a bit of a rough diamond.  From his humble beginnings in Queens NY,  this self-made man  found he had a natural affinity with selling women’s shoes.…

  • Jonny Woo’s ridiculously sublime Un-Royal Variety

    Jonny Woo’s ridiculously sublime Un-Royal Variety

      The Royal Variety Performance is a glitzy, annual televised quintessential annual British institution where senior members of the Royal Family sit through the (allegedly) best that UK has to offer in the way of contemporary popular entertainment. It’s been a staple tradition of show business since King George V and Queen Mary kicked the first…