Why We Like Him: Regaining a Degree of Control, 2010, Mirza's inclusion in the British Art Show 7, is a dark, moody affair.
American short fiction in particular — from Poe and Hawthorne to the present — unfurls at midnight: a dark affair emphasizing our want of health in a civilization gone sick.
Their aromatic pillars are enveloped in paper-thin, matte-white Limoges porcelain with a delicate pocked texture, designed by Studio Toogood to appear like lace when the candles — with romantic names like A Dark Affair and Forget Everything But Me — are lit.
As we've come to expect from the producer/DJ/singer/performer, the mix is a dark affair, put together with a deft touch.
The film's title is a technological gloss on 'For now we see through a glass, darkly' in Chapter 13 of St Paul's first Epistle to the Corinthians (which also provided the title for Ingmar Bergman's Sasom i en spegel) and, indeed, the movie is a dark, often obscure affair that brings to mind the David Cronenberg adaptation of William Burroughs's not dissimilar Naked Lunch.
Although as witty and sparkly as ever, her latest collection, Constitutional, is a much darker affair.
But while previous iterations – particularly the franchise's previous peak, Vice City – had a slightly cartoon feel, GTA IV is an altogether darker affair.
Buy from Amazon.com NIGHT Film", Marisha Pessl's follow-up to her engrossing if hyperactive 2006 debut, "Special Topics in Calamity Physics", is both a more intricate and far darker affair.
His second album, Ghost People, set for release next month on Flying Lotus's Brainfeeder imprint, is a satisfyingly darker affair than his debut, described by Martyn himself as "anxious" and even "obnoxious".
Slightly to his surprise, festival director Alex Poots has found that this fourth biennial festival – of which the Guardian is a media partner – will be a darker affair, with many of the artists concerned with a world that looks bleaker to them in terms of politics, power, freedom and money – or the lack of it.
