I often wonder why and how large film companies work out what they think people want to see.

Clearly from what is on offer they think we all want to see endless re-runs of the same film or the same person playing the same character over and over again (maybe...

Travelling to Naples I was lucky enough to meet with artist French- Italian artist Paul Thorel. He is having his first solo show in Paris in June and this was a truly unique opportunity to speak to someone who embraced the use of digital manipulation in art way...

Boris Mikhailov is a photographer from the Ukraine, born in 1938, who works between Berlin and the Ukrainian town of Kharkov, having left the city during the communist era he returned to find that although on the surface capitalism had brought a better standard of living and increased the vibrancy...

The British Museum is currently showing it's largest exhibition with a single living artist, The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman, an exhibition by the Turner Prize winning artist Grayson Perry paying homage to all the anonymous craftsmen whose work fills the British Museum.

The exhibition is a...

I pay to watch films online and I pay to download tracks - it's something that I feel very strongly about. But it's a personal thing and many people believe that they have a right to download films and music from the web. We must face the fact that mass...

OK, so we have had twenty-year anniversaries of Dazed and Confused, The Big Issue, Nirvana's seminal album Nevermind and Frieze this year, which led me to wonder, what the hell was happening in 1991?

Then I began to wonder... was 1991 the year that the alternative went mainstream? The kids...

I remember meeting Michael Bracewell at the ICA's 50th birthday celebration. I was a teenager and my friend and I were skulking in the green room, nobody wanted to speak to us. We were hanging around for Hanif Kureshi and Neil Tennant from The Pet Shop Boys and generally being...

We are living in a time of great change, so great indeed that I do not know whether to text, email or IM my best friend, I have the choice of all three but the way we are communicating is changing so fast that any which one is a good...

The UK is great at ideas, ok we may not always get to put them into practise (television) or other people learn the rules and do it much better (football) but we are great at cooking them up.

Turning on the radio the other day I heard...

I write news and about art and film. I also love interactive media and although I have suffered a bit of a blow this week at the hands of a rather sparsely populated Google+ I expect that love to grow and flourish.

A friend in the process of completing her...