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Sunday, September 30, 2018

Stephen Rea: ‘No matter how much they enforce Brexit, British identity is dwindling’ by Sean O'Hagan

The actor reveals deep-rooted passions as he talks about his role in Cyprus Avenue, what he learned from Samuel Beckett, Brexit and the TroublesThere is a poem by Tom Paulin called An Ulster…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32AM
Sunday, July 16, 2017

Critics loved The Ferryman. But I’m from Northern Ireland, and it doesn’t ring true by Sean O'Hagan

Jez Butterworth’s hit play about the ‘disappeared’ of the Troubles fails to capture the complexities of that period of history. Then there’s the cliches…Early in the summer of 1981…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AM
Friday, December 30, 2016

Beyoncé to Black Mirror; the culture that defines 2016 by Archie Bland, Michael Billington, Peter Bradshaw, Daphne A Brooks, Tom Holland, Jonathan Jones, Justine Jordan, Brian Logan, Sean O'Hagan and Simon Parkin

How better to make sense of this turbulent year than through the art and literature it has produced? Our critics choose the works that sum up the last 12 monthsIf there is one film that hold…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AM
Sunday, October 2, 2016

Michael Clark: ‘I still make the dance work on my own body first’ by Sean O'Hagan

From his 80s ballet-punk aesthetic to the heroin and despair of the 90s, Michael Clark always danced to his own tune. Now 54, here he talks about the effects of ageing, his mum and the inspi…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:58AM
Sunday, September 13, 2015

Martin McDonagh: ‘I’ve accepted that theatre is never going to be edgy in the way I want it to be’ by Sean O'Hagan

His Irish plays and punk spirit made him the most talked-about dramatist of his generation. As his new play, Hangmen, opens in London, Martin McDonagh talks about his roots, maturity and his…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:01AM
Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Lorna Simpson's photography: gold afros, chess players and 50s glamour by Sean O'Hagan

The US artist's long overdue retrospective at Baltic in Gateshead makes viewers question everything they see with its interrogations of race, identity and memoryWhen she was 12, Lorna Simpso…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:53AM
Saturday, January 25, 2014

A working-class hero is something to be … but not in Britain's posh culture by Sean O'Hagan

British culture was once open to 'messy kids' from secondary moderns. But if you want to make it in 21st century Britain, you'd best have a cut-glass accent and public school pedigreeLast we…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PM
Saturday, November 23, 2013

Harry Dean Stanton: 'Life? It's one big phantasmagoria' by Sean O'Hagan

The wine, the women, the song… The great Harry Dean Stanton talks to Sean O'Hagan about jogging with Dylan, Rebecca de Mornay leaving him for Tom Cruise and why Paris, Texas is his greates…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00PM
Monday, June 10, 2013

Deutsche Börse photography prize 2013 won by Broomberg and Chanarin by Sean O'Hagan

London-based duo Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin praised for their work War Primer 2, which uses montage to comment on photography's role in the 'war on terror'The London-based artists Ad…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00PM

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