Simon Coates

Art

Breaking the Sound Barrier: Tarek Atoui at the Tate Modern

The Tate Modern gallery’s Turbine Hall commission series is one of those rare things: a forward-thinking, artist-supporting initiative located at a global arts institution that is open to all and free to attend. Launched in 2000, the series invites international artists to make one-off artworks that

Culture

Rough Trade at 50

London, February 1976. Former drama teacher Geoff Travis had left his job, weary of a life spent encouraging students to pretend they were trees and speak from the diaphragm. The UK music charts were boring. Country and western yodeller Slim Whitman’s collection, ‘The Very Best of Slim Whitman’, was