2015

  • The great American artist Elsworth Kelly dies

    The great American artist Elsworth Kelly dies

    Elsworth Kelly one of the greatest American Artists of the 20th Century has just died at aged 92. He is survived by his husband of some 28 years the photographer Jack Shear.   Kelly’s simplistic and highly colorful work made his work so highly accessible and here are just a few of our many favorite…

  • Seymour : An Introduction

    Seymour Bernstein is probably the most talented classical pianist alive today, yet very few people have ever heard of him. He was at dinner party a couple of years ago and seated next to the actor Ethan Hawke who was immediately impressed that this octogenarian musician seemed to understand all his anxieties and self-doubts much…

  • The Danish Girl

    The Danish Girl

    This may be a thoroughly British take on this very real groundbreaking story, but immediately from the first frame the screen is awash with these muted languid tones of Copenhagen in the first half of the last century, that there is no doubt of where this is all taking place. Einar and Gerda Wegener are…

  • Joseph Wilson : Drag Is My Ecstasy

    Joseph Wilson : Drag Is My Ecstasy

    A couple of months ago we stumbled upon a extraordinary and wonderfully exhilarating short movie called “Stance” about ‘drag boxing’ which was set in a Working Men’s Club in London.  It literally blew our fishnets off.  It was made by Joseph Wilson a 27 year-old Brit filmmaker who is one of the leading figures in the…