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“It is not a location that has been listed among London’s main cultural attractions. In fact, it compares unfavourably with other dank tunnels in the capital.”
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“With Queen and Country, [McQueen] makes us do the work, provokes us into deciding where we stand. It is a complicated business.”
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“It’s straight gothic, in that what everybody lacks in dimensions they make up for in frills, honour and angst. De Monfort is a nobleman, naturally, wracked with an entirely unaccountable, and unaccounted for, fury.”
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“I left the performance of Prometeo a little nonplussed, really not sure whether I had just seen an emperor romping around without his clothes on or if at some point I was going to have a Road to Damascus epiphany and realise that this is the greatest work of art of the 20th Century”
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“The show looks fantastic, with building models, video fly-throughs, drawings and photographs beside dramatically lit dresses. But it doesn’t go far enough. It never advances beyond “compare and contrast”, dutifully discussing one side, then the other, without ever interweaving the two”
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“A drummer on an 8-foot high black podium on a bridge overlooking Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, backed by the distinctive, deadpan voiceover of acclaimed actor John Malkovich”