It was the new social barometer Twitter that gave the first indication of the storm that hit the iconic south Wales furniture stores Maskreys. The immediate reaction from Tweeps was sadness. Maskreys, after all, is – until the end of November – more than just a furniture shop. Since 1898 the Maskrey family have been [...]
Archive for the ‘Arts’ Category
Not only do I fail to keep this blog up to date (Tweeting has to substitute sometimes for active engagement here), but I don’t get my homework in on time either. Homework? Yes, during term time I’ve been trooping off to Cardiff University – well actually to the National Museum in Cardiff – for a [...]
A Phoenix rises from The Persians
Posted: August 22, 2010 in Arts, Cardiff, Funding, Wales Assembly GovernmentTags: Reviews, Theatre
I cannot imagine that there are many who had the good fortune to see The Persians (background story) over the past two weeks, who doubted that we were present at one of the defining occasions of English-language theatre in Wales. Even the London critics somehow managed to find themselves seated, not in West End luxury, [...]
In writing about the new YouTube phenomena that is Kseniya Simonova there have been a couple of common threads: “it couldn’t have happened here”, and “but is it art?” Of course it couldn’t happen here: eight minutes of prime time television with a young (albeit televisually attractive) woman throwing sand about to an edited sound [...]
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama plans – now that’s more like it!
Posted: July 6, 2008 in Arts, Cardiff, Cricket (especially GCCC), PlanningThe heritage, listed Bute Parks are being subjected to pressures from all fronts: if it isn’t the big money lure of sporting events, it’s a local authority that thinks status and political short-termism is more important that what we leave for our children. One of the organisations that borders Bute Park itself is the RWCMD [...]
Olympics: a quick way to destroy the arts and rob a nation?
Posted: August 10, 2007 in Arts, Funding, OlympicsTags: Arts, Olympics, Public Funding
First it becomes clear that the arts are going to suffer disproportionately because of the 2012 Games, now it’s revealed that a whole country is to suffer. Pouring boiling oil onto already troubled waters, <a href=”http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/3917/” title=”Jenkins article”>Tiffany Jenkins </a>makes the case that the arts sector has itself to blame for the current situation, or [...]
