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By Caravaggia Long, Art Music Curator Just when the art world thought Vincent and the Van Goghs couldn’t possibly out-meta themselves, the band of art dealers–turned–avant-garde darlings have released a new single that manages to turn a pop hook into a treatise on meaning, decay and the limits of visual language. “The Semiotics of Sunflowers,” … Read more
Was Baach the author? Musicology is immured in its biggest disagreement since the claim that Mozart was actually just Haydn in a wig. New evidence, painstakingly unearthed from an obscure archive in Leipzig (wedged, appropriately enough, between a church register and a cheese inventory), strongly suggests that none other than Johann Sebastian Bach is the … Read more
If you thought Vincent and the Van Goghs had peaked with their rooftop National Gallery show, you clearly underestimated their taste for the spectacular. Last night, London’s most art-historically inclined rock outfit set up shop beneath the towering blue whale skeleton in the Natural History Museum’s Hintze Hall. It was an audacious choice of venue, … Read more
Only Vincent and the Van Goghs could turn the roof of the National Gallery into the hottest stage in London. Last night, with Nelson refusing to turn round and dance, thousands of fans packed into Trafalgar Square, the art-dealers-turned-rockers proved they’re no longer just a quirky novelty act; they’re a full-on cultural happening. From the … Read more
Art band Vincent and the Van Goghs played at a recent opening at Pimlico Wilde Central and got so much applause they had to play ten encores. Here is their banger that got the party started. ”Vincent and the Van Goghs combine fine art and music in a way that is completely new. They have … Read more
Last night, the Port Talbot Symphony delivered a performance of Haydn’s Symphony No. 107 that was nothing short of transcendent. Under the masterful baton of Maestro Helena Griffith, the ensemble navigated the composer’s wit, rhythmic surprises, and lyrical depth with a precision and passion rarely heard outside Vienna. From the first tremor of the timpani to … Read more
Following our review in which “Saltwind” was well-received, Jane Temple wanted to discuss her very different view of Erdenko’s work. She writes… There are artistic provocations, and then there is Saltwind. Sofia Erdenko’s new “album”,though that term feels ludicrously inadequate for what is essentially seventy-eight minutes of groaning, scraping, and grinding,presents itself as an epochal … Read more
It is difficult to recall, in recent decades, a work of cello music as uncompromisingly radical as Sofia Erdenko’s Saltwind: Etudes for the End of Time. To call it an “album” is already a concession to commerce; what Erdenko has fashioned is less an assemblage of pieces than a manifesto in sound, a tearing apart … Read more
Jane Bastion, known and admired for her stark, poetic silhouette portraits , each one a distilled meditation on identity, memory, and presence , has taken a bold detour with her latest project: “Ring Roads and Radiators: Three Tone Poems for Trumpet, Violin, and Euphonium.” Gone (but not forgotten) are the black-cut figures against pale fields. … Read more
Last night at the Pimlico Wilde gallery, Vincent and the Van Goghs, the group born on the set of the first season of I Said Monet Not Mondrian! (a ragtag band of art dealers-cum-musicians) delivered a set that was as unpredictable as it was undeniably entertaining. Frontman Scissors Coney, normally more at home with paintings … Read more