Art in the House: Lydie Gallais
ArtHouse welcomes Crouch End-based, French-born artist printmaker Lydie Gallais with a new exhibition of bold screen prints in sumptuous rich hues with occasional glimpses of gold leaf. Of her work Lydie says, ‘I hope to awaken the senses through conveying feelings and emotions and to transport the audience into my world. Growing up in […]
Arthouse Review: Guardian Live: Russell Brand in Conversation
Last night’s (23 October) Guardian Live streaming of Russell Brand in conversation with Owen Jones began with an appeal to support the demands of cinema workers for a living wage. It was the argument made throughout the interview: ordinary people can change things through support for small local struggles as much as through big political […]
ArtHouse Reviews: Gone Girl
As director David Fincher says of Gone Girl, ‘Bad things happen in this film’. The question is, who is doing the bad things? It’s the morning of the fifth wedding anniversary of the beautiful and clever Amy (played by the beautiful and clever Rosamund Pike), and her handsome husband Nick (played by the handsome […]
Arthouse Reviews: 71
According to a character in 71 the British army in Northern Ireland was about ‘Posh men telling thick men to kill poor men’ (but in this version the offensive words have been substituted). Perhaps, like the terror of Private Hook, a teenage soldier posted to a battlefield he knows nothing about, it’s a universal truth […]
