Out & About Spring 2018

Pick of the ARTS

Variety is the spice of life and life gets very spicy this spring as Arts Editor Trish Lee discovers bodies dead and alive, the big American Cool and a creative trail, just for starters. For reviews and arts news see N2 in the Newbury Weekly New s each week Some like it hotter Ladyboys of Bangkok

The Ladyboys of Bangkok: Who Runs the World! Corn Exchange Thursday, April 19 www.wcornexchangenew.com 0845 5218 218

Go on… throw off your humdrum and relish the risqué for one night only. The Lady Boys of Bangkok come to Newbury hotter, cheekier and with more attitude than ever in the lavish Who Runs the World . The sequin-spangled glitz of Las Vegas meets the traditions of the British Music Hall in a show with more songs and big-scale musical numbers than you can pout a painted lip at. The exotic Lady Boys pay tribute to Beyoncé, Rhianna, Gloria Gaynor, Tom Jones and host of other glamorous stars in a night like no other night – with girls like no other girls. Get ready to party like you’ve never partied before. Laugh, sing and enjoy this night to remember.

Exhibitions don’t come

cooler than this

America’s cool modernism: O’Keeffe to Hopper Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont St, Oxford Until July 22 What has to be the most exciting exhibition of this year has just opened at the Sainsbury Exhibition Galleries at the Ashmolean, featuring some of the greatest works ever made by American artists. America’s Cool Modernism: O’Keeffe to Hopper shows more than 80 paintings, photographs and prints and the first American avant-garde film, Manhatta , from international collections. The exhibition looks at a current in inter-war American art that is relatively unknown, it focuses on the artists who grappled with the experience of modern America with a cool, controlled detachment, eliminating people from their pictures altogether. Cool Modernism examines famous painters and photographers of the 1920s and ‘30s, with early works by Georgia O’Keeffe; photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand and Edward Weston; and cityscapes by Edward Hopper. Also on show are major pieces by the so-called precisionist artists. Tickets: £12.25 / £11.25 concessions available at www.ashmolean.org/tickets Catalogue: £25

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