The Observer, 30 October 2005
In Martin Amis’s Heavy Water, there is a story about poets called ‘Career Move’. Amis, in all his brilliant perversity, imagines a world in which poets are feted in Hollywood, flown in to develop a poem over conference call and spend the rest of their time lounging by the pools of [...]

Isaac Julien: True North & Fantôme Afrique
Victoria Miro Gallery, London N1, until 12 Nov
Isaac Julien was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2001 for work which explored identity. His latest show at the Victoria Miro Gallery, a pairing of films which, he says, will eventually be part of a trio of related works, again addresses [...]

Araki: Self. Life. Death
Barbican Arts Gallery, London EC2, to 22 Jan
At the launch of his new retrospective, Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki was described as a ‘tornado’ and it’s not hard to see why. He raced around the gallery, camera in hand and a clutch of well-wishers in tow, occasionally snapping the crowd, then doing an [...]