Adam Pugh

A programme strand within London Film Festival dedicated to artists’ moving image, Experimenta, a lonely noun in a sea of imperatives (LOVE! DARE! LAUGH!, the festival’s programme strands exhort) has for some time existed as a phantom limb; a stubborn barnacle on the granite rump of red-carpet galas and champagne breakfasts that define the capital’s […]

  What is striking about Oberhausen, a post-industrial, working-class city rebuilt extensively after the Second World War, is its enduring sense of the civic. With much in common, architecturally, with the New Towns movement of 1950s Britain, its neat public precincts and leafy boulevards testament to inter- and post-war Modernist resolve, it stands apart for […]