The stockbroker who changed art September 30, 2010 Art Exhibitions GAUGUIN Tate Modern by Timothy Barber **** WERE Paul Gauguin alive today, he’d have made a good subject for one of those “escape the rat race” reality soaps. A Parisian stockbroker who dumped his career (along with his wife and children) to pursue his passion for art, he eventually abandoned the Western world [...]
ALSO OUT THIS WEEKEND September 30, 2010 FILM MADE IN DAGENHAM Whimsical comedy drama about women who went on strike in the 1960s. TAKERS Hayden Christensen stars in this so so crime caper. BACK TO THE FUTURE The greatest oedipal time-travelling film ever made. DVD AMERICAN: THE BILL HICKS STORY Documentary about the late comedian. BAD LIEUTENANT – PORT OF CALL NEW [...]
Stylish ways to keep out the cold September 30, 2010 FOR HIM 1. 110th anniversary mid grey coat by Austin Reed, £350 austinreed.co.uk 2. Georgetown overcheck Melange coat by Gant, £500, gantuk.com 3. Mayfair velvet collar coat by Richard James, £415, johnlewis.com 4. Charcoal grey tweed topcoat by Dunhill, £1,295, dunhill.com 5. Duffle coat by Hackett, £375, hackett.com FOR HER 1. Collarless cashmere coat by [...]
YES, YOU DO NEED TO WEAR MAKEUP…JUST DO IT WITH SUBTLETY September 30, 2010 Style Counsel I HEAR it all the time: “I don’t wear any make up because I don’t know how to apply it…I haven’t got time…Do I need it?…I don’t know what to buy.” Well, there’s no excuse, because cosmetics counters are falling over themselves to teach you how to apply it, and what to get. [...]
Reacher’s next deadly thrill September 29, 2010 WORTH DYING FOR BY LEE CHILD Bantam, £17.99 **** by Zoe Strimpel AT THE end of Child’s previous novel, 61 Hours, maverick man-with-gun Jack Reacher was trapped in a desperate situation from which escape seemed impossible – even for him. But, just like Lisbeth Salander, Stieg Larsson’s super violent super-genius, Reacher always finds a way. [...]
I’ve found out something I shouldn’t know September 29, 2010 SOLVING YOUR WORK-LIFE PROBLEMS I’m paranoid about my husband’s relationships with other women. So I check his phone and Facebook when he’s in the shower, look for suspect messages from women. The other day I found one; a colleague had written something flirty about an office party. Should I confront him? Colleen, 32, private wealth [...]
OUT OF OFFICE September 29, 2010 FLASHDANCE COMES TO THE STAGE It’s all about legwarmers, leotards and doing the splits to Giorgio Moroder’s What a Feeling at the Shaftsbury Theatre, where Flashdance, the 80s cinematic cheesefest about a female welder who dreams of making it to ballet school, is opening in stage musical form. Victoria Hamilton-Barritt stars as leotard-sporting, high-kicking Alex, [...]
There is nowhere to hide: the Gamepocalypse is nigh September 29, 2010 IT MIGHT seem unlikely that the same technology that lets you blow up zombies in an ultra-realistic fashion will also one day help send astronauts to Mars. But that is precisely graphics company NVIDIA’s line of work. The California-based firm manufactures 3D graphics chips both for games companies and the Russian federal space agency in [...]
Don’t let your digits freeze for an iPhone September 29, 2010 This cold weather is a curse for the mobile professional. When you’re constantly coming in from the cold, every office seems like a sauna. It’s worse if you cycle everywhere. Take it from me, standing in a puddle of your own sweat in reception doesn’t inspire confidence. Freshmax Shirts claims its cotton shirts have solved [...]
GADGETS | REVIEWS September 29, 2010 OF THE THREE new members of the iPod family, the Nano is the most radically rethought. If stripped-down is the Apple philosophy, then the new Nano takes this to its logical conclusion. Gone is the iconic click wheel that helped bring MP3 players to the mass market. Instead it uses Apple’s now almost obligatory multi-touch [...]