‘Savage Beauty’ – Alexander McQueen exhibition at the V&A
From 14th March - 2nd August, the V&A is graced by the biggest Alexander McQueen exhibition in Europe. Since McQueen committed suicide in 2010,...
The First Bad Man by Miranda July
Cheryl Glickman — isolated, alone and with no true friends to speak of — is an acute example of the lonesome modern narrator. Miranda...
Giggles by Evdokia Charalampous
With her eyes closed
she has been staring at the lamps on the ceiling for days.By now they must look like Sufi dervishes
whirling in white
to...
11th May, Hay Fever
Press night for Hay Fever on a summer’s eve: the red carpet rolled out in front of the Duke of York theatre; expectant photographers at the...
‘Just Books and Language’ – Interview with Abel Cutillas by Heather...
‘Just Books and Language’ – Interview with Abel Cutillas, co-owner of Llibreria Calders, Sant Antoni, Barcelona by Heather WellsBernat Puigtobella walks me to the...
Five Bullets for Sabeen Mahmud by Manash Bhattacharjee
“Is it tomorrow, or just the end of time?”~ Jimi Hendrix, Purple HazeSabeen had a list of crimes to her name –
She ran a...
Portraits of Artists and Friends – John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent – Portraits of Artists and Friends, National Portrait Gallery
12 February – 25 May 2015If you did not know this was...
Princess Ida
Princess Ida, Finborough Theatre, Until 18th April 2015One’s first experience of seeing a play at Finborough theatre is really rather charming. Located above the Finborough Arms...
Shakespeare in Love
Shakespeare in Love, Noel Coward TheatreIt is so rare to find a play that has perfected the balance between comedy, romance and tragedy – but...
One Thousand Things Worth Knowing by Paul Muldoon and Sentenced to...
These are two very contrastive books both making a clear announcement through their titles. The first is brash, claiming something unbelievable, just as the...
This Land by Josie Ferrante
A feathery touch brings me round. Gentle, like the light summer rain back home in Wiltshire – thin drops patter on my face and...
Into the Blue by Alison Lock
A bee is trapped behind the curtains––its silhouette circles the head of a printed flower. Edith pulls her arm free of the tightly tucked...
Late Turner: Paintings Set Free
At risk of pointing out the obvious, it should be said before anything else, that J. M. W. Turner was always popular. Turner had...
The Cult of Isaac by M. G. Stephens
THE CULT OF ISAACWe all know about Abraham, the great
religions emanating from his skull,
but what about Isaac, where is his world
taken into theological thought,mulled...
Miss Saigon by Heather Wells
Miss Saigon, Prince Edward Theatre, January 2015Sir Cameron Mackintosh’s new production of Miss Saigon, currently on at the Prince Edward theatre, answers the public plea...
Interview with Senior Curator Daniel Robbins
Heather Wells interviews Daniel Robbins, Senior Curator of the Leighton House Museum talking about the current exhibition, A Victorian Obsession. Thank you for letting us...
For Calcutta by Manash Bhattacharjee
As I leave for Calcutta
I think the city
Always that other city
Its river Ganga
Always my other river
Howrah Bridge
What a colonial cradle
A Raj suspended
Kipling's imperial joy
Hoogly...
At the Nursing Home by Leland James
—inside an old man vacant by the windowHold me occasionally for the light is fading
and I can no longer see the hills that once
rose...
Green by Chris Woods
My Kodak Brownie didn’t work
but I have a picture of the green dress.
The film was black and white,
my memory is colour.We’d eaten our lunch...
The Trials of Oscar Wilde, Trafalgar Studios II
The Trials of Oscar Wilde is currently showing for its last week at Trafalgar Studios, formerly Whitehall Theatre. It is co-written by John O’Connor...
Back to Painting – Danny Fox
It’s a strange time in the history of the visual arts avant-garde right now. So strange that the vast majority of those who think...
Virginia Woolf – Art, Life and Vision
Virginia Woolf viewed greatness as a “positive possession”. In her mind greatness was “a bodily presence; it has nothing to do with anything said....
Different Faces by Manash Bhattacharjee
"I wonder sometimes where people store all their different faces."
~ Trina Nileena BanerjeeThe face he wears every morning
Reminds him of his mother
Combing his hair...
Truth and Memory at The Imperial War Museum
The walk from Waterloo station to The Imperial War Museum is one of London’s dreariest, second only to any perambulation taking in Lower Thames...