Thursday, June 30, 2016

Culture File: Crystian Cruz' creates a typeface to tell a history of censorship

A Brazilian typographer uses his art to exhume the history of censorship under his country's military dictatorship

Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Culture File: A new creole cuisine on Mauritius

Italian chef, Fabio de Poli, is bringing Mauritian staples like palm heart or ochra, into the world of fine dining

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Culture File: Aisling Kelliher on the Disruptor 50

The tech version of "The World's 50 Best Restaurants" is CNBC Disruptor 50, a guess about what's about to be big

Monday, June 27, 2016

Culture File Xtra: Culture File: Aisling Kelliher on the Disruptor 50 Long version

An extended version of our Culture File picking winners and WTFs from CNBC's Disruptor 50 for 2016, with Prof Aisling Kelliher, of Virginia Tech.

The Culture File Weekly No 76 (NCAD, The Listening Crowd, A world of numbers with Piergiorgio Odifreddi)

Does hiring a banker to run an art college presage a clash of cultures? Maybe not, says NCAD's Bernard Hanratty. Italian mathematical philosopher and Joycean, Piergiorgio Odifreddi on why numbers never click for some people; and The Listening Crowd conference investigates new music and the people who lend it their ears

Culture File: LA Stories (Part 1)

Los Angeles, the ultimate car culture city is getting remade by the "ride sharing service" Uber

Friday, June 24, 2016

Culture File: Good and Bad at Maths

Italian mathematical philosopher and Joycean, Piergiorgio Odifreddi on why numbers never click for some people

Thursday, June 23, 2016

Culture File: Prof Piergiorgio Odifreddi on the maths of culture and the culture of maths

Where math meshes with literature and the theories of Gödel mesh with the imaginings of Joyce

Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Culture File: The Listening Crowd

It's not just about who listens, but how, at The Listening Crowd conference on new music audiences

Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Culture File: NCAD Management

Does hiring a banker to run an art college presage a clash of cultures? Maybe not, says NCAD's Bernard Hanratty

Monday, June 20, 2016

The Culture File Weekly No 75 (Emperor Charles IV, fiddler-artist, Sinéad Onóra Kennedy, Google's Tango VR tools, Cape Town Opera)

This weekly: the artist-fiddle player who blends her two skills together, a team of architects using Google Tango, the story of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV and an opera biography of Nelson Mandela

Culture File: Flying Dodo

Oscar Olsen runs Mauritius' only craft brewery, but aims to spread his gospel, and his beer, across Africa

Friday, June 17, 2016

Culture File: Mandela Sings!

How best to tell the grand, complex life story of Nelson Mandela? Through opera of course!

Thursday, June 16, 2016

Culture File: Relics of Charles IV

Jirí Fajit of the National Gallery, Prague, on his new relic-filled show about the greatest King of Bohemia

Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Culture File: Tango at the Roundhouse

Telling the stories of London's Roundhouse venue using Tango, an experimental VR technology from Google.

Culture File: Sound into pigment with Sinéad Onóra Kennedy

Artist-fiddler, Sinéad Onóra Kennedy on creating images of her experiences of traditional fiddle music

The Culture Fie Weekly No 74 (Olafur Eliasson, Bill Butt, Pom Boyd, Mauritius' Rumvolution)

This weekly: Icelandic artist and environmental activist, Olafur Eliasson on following in the footsteps of LeBrun and Bernini in the layer of the Sun King, Bill Butt’s cello, how the women of 1916 are inspiring on a new history of the 20th century and a visit the tiny St Aubin rhummerie in Mauritius to witness a rumvelution!

The Culture File Weekly No. 73 (Billy Elliot, Ballymaloe Food Fest, Adblocking)

This weekly: the 1980s politics that gave rise to new millennium music blockbuster, Billy Elliot, the rise and rise of adblocking software and a tasting plate of cooks, writers and "sacred dining" from this year's Ballymaloe Festival.

Monday, June 13, 2016

Culture File: The Two Sun Kings at Versaille

Environmental artist, Olafur Eliasson on following in the steps of LeBrun and Bernini in the layer of the Sun King

Friday, June 10, 2016

Culture File: Michelin Stars & Balancing the Books

Galway chef and owner Aniar restaurant talk Michelin stars, staffing levels and the business of food..

Culture File: Bill Butt's Cello

Bill Butt, cello in tow, offers help on (among other things) cello wood choice and Kodály's funky tuning tricks.

Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Culture File: A Rum Revolution in the Indian Ocean

Culture File: A Rum Revolution in the Indian Ocean Mauritius' St Aubin "rhumerie" is at the head of an artisan rum revolution on the Indian Ocean.

Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Culture File: Celebrating the Woman of 1916

Celebrating the women of 1916 is the start of the job in Smashing Times Theatre's Women, War and Peace season.

Friday, June 3, 2016

Culture File: Billy Elliot Goes Global (Part 2)

The many afterlives (including the Korean version) of Billy Elliot

Thursday, June 2, 2016

Culture File: Billy Elliot Dances On (Part 1 of 2)

Elton John and the 1980s politics that drive a 21st century blockbuster, with Billy Elliot producer, Jon Finn