Pop Art?
April 27, White Cube Gallery, Hoxton Square; I find myself waiting in a queue, six deep, to get past the velvet rope and into the opening for the new Tracey Emin show. In order to get to the exhibition, I wade through Andy Warhol lookalikes, thirtysomething hipsters and short-haired dykes in black turtlenecks. Inside is a motley selection of quilts stitched with crude poetry, snappy phrases in neon, and large photographic prints of the artist stuffing pound notes into her feminine orifice. Emin is the reigning queen of the British art scene - living a rock star life purportedly fuelled by drugs and alcohol and wearing clothes by Vivienne Westwood. But what would I call her work? "Concept art", "post-structuralist
feminism"
Features: Bill Clinton
As Bill Clinton continues his UK tour, we ask why our politicians can't quite hold a torch to Billy Boy.
Features: Hacks Ahoy...
Political canvassing is not new; it has been around as long as people have sought power. One wonders if it actually makes any difference; I don't know about you, but my first reaction to anyone knocking on my door and asking me if I had decided how I was going to vote would be "yes" (thought bubble, "but I'm certainly not telling you"). This week has been something of an eye-opener. Joining the campaign trail of three parties and their student representatives has highlighted not only that these activists exist in our university and believe that what they are doing can have a serious impact, but also that the whole process of canvassing is itself quite an insight into the way people live and even think. And as is mostly the case in the politics/public clash, (enter John "Two Jabs" Prescott etc.), the whole thing was also rather amusing....
Features: Ladies First?
"The girls in my class are now juggling with all the competing pressures of being good mothers and holding down a good job,"- William Hague, adding a personal touch to one of his election speeches.