Deputy Arts Editor (2008/09)
Beki Senior asks why the ‘Father of Appropriation’ had work removed from the Tate.
Contemporary ArtsUnder the current financial climate, headline stories such as Damien Hirst’s record breaking $199 million one man auction at Sotheby’s 2008 seem memories of a by gone era.
Sitting amidst a rowdy crowd in York’s Royal Opera House I anticipated my first encounter with ‘The King of Controversial Comedy’, northerner Royston Vasey i.e. Roy Chubby Brown.
Exhibition: Bharat Ganarajya ‘A Journey through India’
Location: The Norman Rea Gallery, Langwith
Artist: Geoff Currie
Rating: ****
The Norman Rea Gallery’s latest exhibition offers an invitation to ‘discover the real India’. Photographer Geoffrey Currie’s exploration of Delhi, Calcutta and Varanasi is well catalogued in over 40 portraits, street scenes and landscapes of India’s daily rituals and customs.
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An aggressively animated cast piggy-backed the confused and sometimes congested script of this term’s PantSoc installment, Jack and the Beanstalk. Flickers of ‘Mighty Boosh’-style comedy infiltrated, especially from the thoroughly deserving ‘Mad Alice’.
Anticipant fans, thrifty students and the odd humiliated late comer filled the packed out Comedy Night 5 at York Theatre Royal.