Art is often seen as shocking, provocative and confrontational. It is the one place where we are free to push the boundaries and explore taboos; to criticise and comment on society in a way that other mediums might not afford us. For many people, just to evoke a reaction - positive or otherwise - is the purpose of art. However, especially when we are young, some of us may not think our art through thoroughly, responding very much on impulse to that spark of creativity, or

I'm not much of a person for musicals. I saw that one with the roller skates as a child, but nothing else until recently. It's frankly bizarre to watch people spontaneously bursting out into song (same goes for Disney). I'm not much of a theatre goer in general. It's not that I don't like theatre - there is something to be said for live performance - but, rather, I don't know what to see. With film, having studied film studies at college, I know what actors, writers, dir

I rushed away from work yesterday afternoon so that I could catch the tube into London to see Matthew Barney’s film/opera, ‘River of...

Yesterday I visited the Whitechapel gallery for a day-long special sequential screening, in its entirety, of Matthew Barney's, crushingly tedious, according to the San Fransisco Chronicle, 'The Cremaster Cycle', to coincide with the UK premiere of his opera hybrid art film, 'River of Fundament'. After a long queue that blocked the station entrance and before the films even began, the director of the gallery, Iwona Blazwick, congratulated us on our courage and dedication. Th