Dali: kitsch or must-see?
Re: Festival reviews (issue 394)
Jack Mottram's review of the Dali exhibition has me baffled. In my view, Dawn Ades has curated an exemplary exhibition, perfectly placed in Terry Farrell's surreal work-over of the Dean Orphanage. What is on view is Dali’s schizophrenia as an artist: the work from the 19305 is witty, engaging, Subversive. But, post-war, when he turned from shocking the bourgeoisie to shocking us liberal aesthetes, I am predictably appalled by his kitsch religiosity and banality of painting. The stereoscopics, so admired by your reviewer, leave me cold, but this is a must-see exhibition.
John Williams
Wal/asey
Merseyside
Funny peculiar
Re: Festival reviews (issue 393/394)
I am an avid reader of The List and during Edinburgh Festival time it is an extremely informative magazine. However I was extremely disappomted to read recently the reviews for both Bill Bailey at the Assembly Rooms and Ross Noble at the Gilded Balloon in the edition of 24 August.
The reason I raise this is that in the edition of The List dated 17 August both of these shows were highlighted in The List's Hit List. Now in today’s edition I find that both shows are only rated on a three-star basis and when one reads these reviews they hardly come across as Hit List material.
I purchased tickets for both of these shows on the basis of the original recommendations and I am disappointed that The List is pursumg such a policy. Lesley Duncan via e-mail
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Summertime and the living rooms are easy
Re: Features (issue 395)
Page 12 of your fine mag and I find A.L. Kennedy saying, 'We’re not doing something where you leave your living room and go and sit in someone else's'.
So I flick over to page 14 and Cora Bissett is saying, ’Having lived in umpteen tenement flats in Glasgow, it seemed crazy that these great big living rooms weren’t getting used for something other than lounging around and watching the telly'.
What's with the living room hang up? Is there something I’ve missed? I've also lived in umpteen tenement flats — and very fine they were too — but I’ve never once felt like going to see a show in someone else’s living room or expected to find one in my own. Haven’t these people got something better to worry about?
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