Arts & Culture

Counterpoetics, New in Ceasefire - Monday, January 23, 2012 12:00 - 0 Comments

Counterpoetics | of the imperishable spirit

January's offering from Ceasefire's poet-in-residence Dominic Fox.

Arts & Culture, New in Ceasefire - Friday, January 20, 2012 19:16 - 0 Comments

Exhibition | Anselm Kiefer: Il Mistero delle Cattedrali (White Cube)

For over forty years, the internationally renowned German artist Anselm Kiefer’s works have consistently revisited his country’s relationship with its past. Ceasefire's Joe Lloyd reviews the White Cube's 'Il Mistero delle Cattedrali', the largest presentation of Kiefer's work ever made in London.

Books, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, January 10, 2012 12:54 - 1 Comment

Books | Review: ‘Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere’ by Paul Mason

As BBC Newsnight's economics editor, Paul Mason has enjoyed an unrivalled vantage point from which to observe the political, social and economic upheavals of the past year. His new book, 'Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere' is reviewed by Ceasefire's Alex baker.

Exhibition, New in Ceasefire - Monday, January 9, 2012 15:05 - 0 Comments

Exhibition | The Radical Camera: New York’s Photo League, 1936-1951

The Jewish Museum in New York is currently exhibiting images by the 'Photo League', a group of photographers whose socio-political work was blacklisted in Cold War America. Janine DeFeo, Ceasefire's art critic, explores the exhibition.

Chess Corner, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, January 5, 2012 13:26 - 0 Comments

Chess Corner | Bobby Fischer : World Championship Candidate

In the second of his series on the game's legendary maverick, Paul Lam chronicles Bobby Fischer's dramatic, and drama-filled, ascent towards becoming the only credible challenger to the Soviet dominance of the game.

Books, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, December 27, 2011 12:00 - 0 Comments

Books | Review: ‘School Wars’ by Melissa Benn

Andrew Fleming reviews 'School Wars' by Melissa Benn, and discusses how a focus on the reactionary nature of recent education reforms threatens to obscure a vastly more important and unprecedented change to the way our nation’s schools work.

Arts & Culture, New in Ceasefire - Monday, December 19, 2011 12:00 - 0 Comments

Arts & Culture | Complicit critics: the artist in the economy

In the context of neoliberal, predatory, continually mutating post-Fordist capitalism, do artists have any hope of retaining a critical independence from the economy? Janine DeFeo investigates by looking at the work of Paolo Cirio and Shiraz Bayjoo.

Exhibition, New in Ceasefire, Theatre - Friday, December 16, 2011 0:00 - 0 Comments

Arts & Culture | How to remember Stalin: ‘The Collaborators’ (National Theatre) and ‘Building the Revolution’ (Royal Academy)

A Soviet-nostalgia revival seems to be under way, with John Hodge's new play 'The Collaborators' and the Royal Academy's new exhibition on Soviet Art and Architecture. Musab Younis, Ceasefire's deputy editor, reviews.

Exhibition, New in Ceasefire - Sunday, December 11, 2011 10:08 - 0 Comments

Exhibition | Review: Tacita Dean’s ‘Film’ (Tate Modern)

Douglas Brennan reviews Tacita Dean's Film, a showcase of 35mm film-making at Tate Modern's Turbine Hall.

Books, New in Ceasefire - Saturday, December 10, 2011 20:06 - 1 Comment

Books | Review: The Political Economy of Media and Power

John Robertson reviews 'The Political Economy of Media and Power', edited by Jeffery Klaehn, an interdisciplinary collection addressing some of the most important issues at the intersections between mass media and the politics of power.