Arts & Culture
Originally published on Monday, 11th May 2009
Should I stay? Or should I go (out)?
Like recalcitrant kidults, no real city-dweller can resist stretching out on the nearest green patch when the weather’s fine. Which is why London’s cultural world is working double-time to keep us happily engaged indoors.
And we just can’t get through May without…
… chopping up the script. Scottish artist Luke Fowler uses documentary film-making and biography to make impressionistic sampled film histories of his subjects. Don’t look for narrative logic, so chill out to the trippy atmosphere.
May 7 - June 14 at the Serpentine Gallery
… getting a sense of space. Le Corbusier was perhaps the most powerfully influential architect of the 20th century. But he was also an artist, a writer and an intellectual. This is the last chance to engage in the series of talks about the master’s work. Modern architecture wouldn’t be modern without this man.
Until May 24 at the Barbican Gallery
… checking out the ‘burbs. Shifty, Eran Creevy’s film of two friends and the crazy stuff that happens when the crack comes out in force has got everyone buzzing. And it was made for a mere £100,000. Apply for your second mortgage now and start filming.
Shifty on general release now nationwide
….making weird noises at nature. The Butterfly Jungle exhibition at the Natural History museum is being touted as a family show. But don’t let that put you off. We’ve all got an inner child who’s desperate to ooo and ahhh – and what’s not to ‘ooo’ at about red knee tarantula, emperor scorpions and giant centipedes? And that’ s before you’ve even got to the butterflies. Ahhh!