This year Brussels’ annual Accessible Art Fair presents over fifty artists competing for your spare change. They have added another room in the Conrad to accommodate another twenty painters, sculptors and photographers and you get the sense immediately of more wall space. Director Stephanie Manasseh said, “We brought in an architect this time to make [...]
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To Rome with Love (2012) Picturenose’s James Drew completes his two-part paean to Mr Konigsberg (aka Woody Allen) with his latest, which is still showing at the Vendôme in Brussels. Another year, another Woody Allen film. I am aware that this may cause distress for some misguided souls, but not me – like waiting in [...]
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Midnight in Paris (2011) Picturenose’s James Drew seizes the opportunity to rediscover a modern Woody Allen classic that’s showing at Cinema Styx in Brussels. Well, are you or aren’t you? A Woody fan, I mean – in the same way that much of the civilized world may be safely divided into two categories, namely those [...]
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Shivers (aka The Parasite Murders, They Came from Within) (1975) Picturenose’s James Drew takes a trip into bad sex, according to Cronenberg. Following a really interesting discussion on my review of David Cronenberg’s The Brood (1977) on Picturenose.com with our reviewer Agata, in which the brave lady got around to seeing what is perhaps the [...]
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Special edition CDs, concerts and a four-month long exhibition are all part of the celebrations as Toots’ hits 90. Toots has always been as comfortable in his native Brussels and he has been in far-flung places, playing everywhere from smoky jazz bars to Carnegie Hall. Toots90 is an interactive (open your lug-holes) exhibition dedicated to [...]
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The BOZAR Book Club is in its second season (in French and Dutch) and has now added a new English-language section. The idea is simple: a bunch of folks gather to talk about a particular book, under the watchful eyes (and ears) of a moderator—writer Lila Azam Zanganeh has been chosen to moderate these three-monthly [...]
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