Friday, April 29, 2016

Culture File: Attic Projects's Luke Murphy

Choreographer and performer Luke Murphy on dance, determination and the possibility of whiplash

Thursday, April 28, 2016

Culture File: Archeogaming (part 3)

The archaeology and ethics of human-chicken relationships in video games, with research duo, Clucks & Clicks

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Culture File: Archeogaming (part 2)

No Man's Sky, a game with a 18 quintillion planets to explore, will change gaming & keep games archaeologists busy

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Culture File: Archeogaming (part 1)

What happens when the apparently disparate worlds of archaeology and video games converge?

Monday, April 25, 2016

Culture File: Zooming in on Hieronymus Bosch

Luke Clancy visits the first almost complete gathering of the works of Dutch master of the weird, Hieronymus Bosch

The Culture File Weekly No 67 (Wigmore Hall special with John Gilhooly)

In this special edition, we walk amongst the marble and the ghosts at London's Wigmore Hall in the company of its Limerick-born director, John Gilhooly, to hear about the space's journey from piano showroom to the world's greatest chamber music venue

Friday, April 22, 2016

Culture File: The End of The English Wine Joke

Modern day Wine Goose, Dermot Sugrue on the fizz of an English wine renaissance in Sussex

Thursday, April 21, 2016

Culture File: The Wigmore Hall (part 3)

How one of the UK's oldest chamber music venues is approaching life online, with John Gilhooly of the Wigmore Hall

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Culture File: The Wigmore Hall (part 2)

Rubinstein's farewell, and other moments of Wigmore Hall history, with the venue's head, John Gilhooly

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Culture File: The Wigmore Hall

Amongst the velvet and mahogany at the world's greatest chamber music space, with the Wigmore Hall boss, John Gilhooly

Monday, April 18, 2016

Culture File: Alan Phelan's Our Kind

A speculative story of the life Roger Casement never had a chance to live, in Alan Phelan's new film

The Culture File Weekly No 66 (Sat 15 April 2016: The Yips in Music The Blue Boy Horace and Pete Clean Air and the Mezzo-Soprano)

This weekly, "the yips" in music; the most beautiful sound in the world as imagined by a child in an industrial school; smoke and the soprano; and why the old stuff seems so new in Louis CK's acclaimed and as it turns out, prohibitively expensive, not-quite comedy, Horace and Pete

Friday, April 15, 2016

Culture File: The Barber of Seville

Even as mezzo-of the moment, Tara Erraught, prepares for her 25th outing as Rosina, for her, Rossini never gets old

Thursday, April 14, 2016

Culture File: The Yips In Music

With "the yips" back in the sports pages, we consult our fav neurologist, Steven Frucht, about dystonia in music

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Culture File: Horace and Pete's new old vision

Louis CK's "radically stagey" web series, Horace and Pete, makes disintermediation grimly appealing

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Culture File: Grey socks and yapping dogs

Exploring the lives of people held as children in residential care institutions, in Brokentalkers' The Blue Boy

Monday, April 11, 2016

Culture File: Taking a chance with Russell Mills

Artist and notable designer of album sleeves for Brian Eno, Russell Mills, in conversation live at NCAD, Dublin

The Culture File Weekly No 63 (Sat 9th April 2016 On/Off Orlando Furioso John Sheahan)

This weekly, choosing the jazz lifestyle with Czech-Irish duo ON/OFF, fighting sea monsters in Ludovico Ariosto's epic 16th century romance, Orlando Furioso, and sharing a pint of coke and a glass of still water in The Ferryman pub with last Dubliner standing, fiddler, John Sheahan

Saturday, April 9, 2016

Culture File At FOTE Live - Mark Best (chef, Marque, Sydney)

Chef Mark Best's uncompromising look at the food industry, live at Food On The Edge, 2015.

Friday, April 8, 2016

Culture File: Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso at 500

Eric Haywood uncovers "knights in distress and damsels in shining armour" in an Italian Renaissance bestseller

Culture File: The Last Dubliner Standing (Part 1)

A pint of coke and a glass of water in The Ferryman, with the last remaining Dubliner, fiddler, John Sheahan

Culture File: The Last Dubliner Standing (Part 2)

More soft drinks and hard knocks, as fiddler, John Sheahan and bud, Eamonn O’Reilly, remember Dublin dockside life

Thursday, April 7, 2016

Culture File: Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso at 500

Eric Haywood uncovers "knights in distress and damsels in shining armour" in an Italian Renaissance bestseller

Culture File: Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso at 500

Eric Haywood uncovers "knights in distress and damsels in shining armour" in an Italian Renaissance bestseller

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Culture File: Next Gen Jazz with On/Off

Reading the jazz tea leaves in search of the future of jazz, with Czech-Irish jazz duo On/Off

Monday, April 4, 2016

Culture File Weekly No 64 - Nicholas Serota Special

This weekly, a special edition with Nicholas Serota, the head of Tate - and the man responsible for turning a defunct London power station into one of the world’s most visited contemporary art destinations - on the evolution of the gallery, how to encounter new art and how the Turner Prize responded to a new role for contemporary art

Culture File: Director of Tate Nicholas Serota in conversation (Part 3)

How Tate Modern reshaped London, accidentally making life harder for younger artists

Friday, April 1, 2016

Culture File: Director of Tate Nicholas Serota in conversation (Part 2)

Nicholas Serota on the wandering years of the Turner Prize and why collaborative group, Assembly's 2015 win matters