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Also for sale - and for your viewing pleasure - still life has been given the Alphabetti Spaghetti treatment by realist painter, Cameron Galt, who carefully arranges the individual letters in the bowls of pasta he paints. RCFA currently has a series of Galt's work, entitled Three Sacred Tondos (costing £4,950 each). But what does the piece pictured spell out? Well we're going to go ahead and give you one gargantuan clue. The painting is titled Leonardo. Got it? Thought so. Two more to work out, here.
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Tonight (April 30), and for only three hours (6pm to 9pm), the artist that everyone keeps calling the "Banksy of Brighton" - probably to his unending annoyance - is exhibiting Pills, at Digbeth's 112 Space. Imbue - who actually moved from the south coast to Birmingham 18 months ago - has filled 30 crucifixes with capsule pills in his latest work which continues his fascination with religion. A type one diabetic, the artist owes his life to medical science and here he jams these two, often opposing worlds, together in a thought-provoking work. Go see it. Maybe get happy. Maybe get mad. Maybe get even. We have no idea what we mean by that.
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STREET BANQUET:
ICE AND A SLICE?
We're at risk of being beaten with bread sticks when we say this, but we reckon the best permanent pizzeria in Brum is Rossopomodoro, in the bowels of Selfridges. And as the sun threatens to warm us once more we really don't want to be dining in, statistically, the single furthest place from a window in the entire city. The good news is we have a glut of stonking street food pizza folk including Fire & Slice, who'll be flinging dough all over a glorious outdoor event this Saturday (May 2). Part of Digbeth venue Lab 11’s third birthday, Street Banquet sees Fire & Slice joined by chicken wings champions the Butchers Social, Caribbean foodies 63 Islands and South African stall Savanna Grill. Juniper geniuses Langley's No.8 have all your cocktail requirements covered and have devised a slurp - The Langley’s E11ven - specifically for the event. Wine lords Loki, meanwhile, will come armed with their best-selling white and red (plump for the Malbec) and a selection they have dubbed "weird and wonderful". There's music too, so we won't all be stood in complete silence, nothing to talk about.
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MOVIE OF THE WEEK: FAR FROM THE MADDENING CROWD
It’s long been one of the movies’ best-kept secrets that if you want a fresh look at a familiar world, get in a director with a different passport. Dane Thomas Vinterberg (The Hunt) may not be the obvious choice to adapt one of the less bleak Thomas Hardy novels, but his interest in 19th Century rural England, undimmed by growing up with endless Sunday night costume dramas, is palpable. This is no stately procession for the Downton Abbey fan club – the past here, for once, feels alive. Carey Mulligan’s spirited turn as Bathsheba Everdene helps, made suddenly desirable by her inheritance of land and torn between a farm labourer (Matthias Schoenaerts), a soldier (Tom Sturridge) and a wealthy farmer (Michael Sheen). This being Hardy, it doesn’t end well for most of the cast, but for once the passions of his novels – that can seem overbearing rendered literal on film – are made plausible by strong performances and judicious pruning from the text. On top of that Vinterberg’s eye for the idiosyncrasies of the period brings a freshness many leaden literary adaptations lack. Dorset looks gorgeous, n'all.
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