Cain on Culture

Previous blog posts

• Turner Prize nominations: theory and academic thought

  May 1, 2012 10:05 am No Comments

  There's a heavy strain of art theory and academic thought running through the nominated work, all of which will be adapted for a show opening in Tate Britain in the autumn.

• US indie film on show as Sundance rises in the UK

  April 26, 2012 7:58 pm No Comments

  It's known as the champion of independent cinema and has helped launch films such as Reservoir Dogs and The Blair Witch Project. But now, for the first time, the Sundance Film Festival is leaving the American state of Utah - and coming to Britain.

• Book Slam: a literary cabaret for readers

  April 23, 2012 3:21 pm 3 Comments

  Book Slams are a self-styled ‘literary cabaret’ in nightclubs across Britain, fusing fiction with live music, DJ acts, stand-up comics and performance poets.

• Orange prize shortlist – where are all the Brits?

  April 17, 2012 9:35 am No Comments

  Channel 4 News Culture Editor Matthew Cain blogs on the Orange Prize for Fiction shortlist and asks why so few of the nominations and recent winners are British?

• The death of traditional film projection

  April 15, 2012 11:13 am 2 Comments

  Channel 4 News Culture Editor Matthew Cain blogs on the death of traditional film projection which is being killed off by digital technology.

• Leonardo, lost from view

  April 6, 2012 4:43 pm No Comments

  Hidden away in Windsor Castle lies some of the greatest art in the world.The collection includes 600 drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, writes Culture Editor Matthew Cain.

• Damien Hirst and an ‘undeniable wow factor’

  April 2, 2012 7:02 pm 3 Comments

  Damien Hirst may be the best known of the YBAs, or Young British Artists, but perhaps incredibly, he’s never been the subject of a major survey show in the UK. Until now, writes Matthew Cain.

• The rise of black lesbian and gay cinema

  March 28, 2012 5:23 pm 2 Comments

  Channel 4 News Culture Editor Matthew Cain blogs on black gay and lesbian cinema

• Royal Ballet set to make history

  March 22, 2012 3:10 pm No Comments

  Matthew Cain looks at how livestreaming a day in the life of ballet dancers will shine a spotlight on a rigorous and stressful art forms.