Grand Union
None of this feels very inviting, to say the least. This is the problem with Grand Union: individual pieces of talented writing are undercut by an author who refers to “the people” in quotation marks, and twice repeats the phrase, “This is a metaphor”. In other words, an author who seems conflicted about our presence in her domain.
Andrew Hungate reviews Zadie Smith‘s Grand Union.
“Nothing happens before 2 a.m”: The Art of the Nightclub
In the words of Pharrell Williams’s dance floor hit, going out to clubs implies “we’re up all night to get some” and “we’re up all night to get lucky”. If this assumption were wholly true, a lot of the art in this retrospective would not exist. The works gathered from around the world aim to shed light on important artistic, social and political ideas at the heart of these clubs and cabarets along with the more obvious playful and sensual energy of the dance floor.
By Mersiha Bruncevic.