Mayday! Mayday!
Two weeks ago, like thousands of others, I demonstrated on Oxford Street. Contrary to what you may have read in the papers, however, I was not demonstrating against globalisation. My objections - and those of many anti-capitalists - are not to technology, industrialisation or the disappearance of borders between nations, but to the fact that under capitalism these things benefit only a tiny minority....
Features: Urban Living
Street photography has always been a medium that has caught the imagination of many art and photography lovers, and this exhibition, Open City, should be no exception. With a wide and inclusive array of artists showing, the exhibition is well worth a visit. As the catalogue says, 'the street is central to the way many of us live in the modern urban environment', and Open City reflects this, through the many views of urban existence from the last fifty years of street photography. With nineteen artists exhibiting, the works vary greatly in depth and quality, subject and taste. The artists in Open City show the whole myriad of human life upon its stage - the street and the city, from the first world, to the third, work and play, privilege and poverty. The paradox is endless. The title of the exhibition takes its name from Roberto Rossellini's 1945 film, Rome: Open City. It was an uncompromising view of city life in a post World War Two Europe, and transformed the representation of urban life as presented in the media, film and photography. Open City is thus a fitting tribute....
Features: Sacha Baron Cohen
Cohen, the creator of Ali G, won awards for best comedy programme and best comedy performance at last Sunday's Bafta Television awards ceremony. Ali G also topped the polls as the favourite fantasy prime minister in the recent radio 1 survey of first-time voters.
Features: Helping AIDS in Africa
What is happening regarding AIDS and access to medicines in Africa? Are the pharmaceutical companies really putting money and profit before people's lives? Who is responsible for trying to turn the tide in what is becoming one of the greatest human tragedies of our time - the AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa?...