Transcending Boundaries by teamLab at Pace London
Touch coral reefs, and they will die. It doesn’t feel outlandish to suggest an oblique parable in the fact that one of the world’s...
Ophelia Among The Flowers by Redon
Odilon Redon’s Ophelia Among The Flowers is one of the many pastels that take Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet as their subject. But this early twentieth-century piece,...
William Eggleston: Portraits
William Eggleston wrote far better than most writers write. He wrote without words through his portraits as fleeting and resonant as a Carver story....
Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain by Barney Norris
What is ‘home’? A person? A place? A feeling of belonging?
These are the questions that run through Barney Norris’s debut novel like a finely...
Review | Exhilarating Magus: Myth and Poetics in Stephen Yenser’s Stone...
Stone Fruit, Stephen Yenser’s highly anticipated third collection published by Waywiser, dazzles, delights, and enchants with its wordplay, predilection for sound effects, and linguistic...
Faith Healer at Donmar Warehouse
Lyndsey Turner’s revival of Brian Friel’s 1979 play uses the wisdom of age to give this oft dubbed “modern masterpiece” a dark depth, comedy,...
Review | We Live in an Ocean of Air by Marshmallow...
SALON at Saatchi Gallery welcomes you into a dark room illuminated by two screens, two windows into a peaceful and majestic forest. The screens...
Quotidian Queerness
The great strength of this exhibition is its demonstration of the ubiquitous nature of queer art and culture. Timed to remind us that it...
Happiness by Jack Underwood
‘Sometimes your sadness is a yacht’ is the title of the fourth poem in Jack Underwood’s recently published collection Happiness. Highlighting early on in...
Stranger, Baby by Emily Berry
Freud is dangerous territory for poets. He did more than just make his mark on the literature of the twentieth century: he cross-hatched it....
Review | Keith Vaughan: On Pagham Beach, Photographs and Collages from...
It is hard for those brought up in a world of gender fluidity, with debates about who has the right to use which bathroom,...
George Shaw – My Back to Nature
In the perpetual twilight of the woodland world, trees loom like sinister monoliths out of the gloom. Leaf-mould partially obscures a discarded garment, or...
Pearl by Simon Armitage
Simon Armitage’s new translation of the fourteenth-century poem Pearl follows his energetic 2008 translation of the same anonymous poet’s Sir Gawain and the Green...
9 of Europe’s Best Bookshops
A good bookshop can be many different things - a haven from the world, a counter-cultural space, and a meeting point for friends, as...
Macbeth
Scotland herself is the main character in this blood-soaked reimagining of Shakespeare's shortest tragedy. So enamoured is director Justin Kurzel of his Highland landscape...
Review | Normal People by Sally Rooney
Sally Rooney’s long-awaited second novel “Normal People” burst onto the scene last month, and has been making waves in the literary world since its...
David Hockney at Tate Britain
Visiting a gallery in London during the February half term is a rookie error. In a bid to occupy restless children, and driven inside...
Picasso: Minotaurs and Matadors at the Gagosian
The Minotaur was a key figure in Picasso’s imagination and art, so much so that the artist once remarked that ‘If all the ways...
Poetry London Summer Readings: Rachael Allen, Andrew McMillan, Vahni Capildeo and...
Poetry London’s summer launch opened with an impassioned speech by the poet Karen McCarthy Wood, who is a trustee on the magazine’s board. The...
Falling Awake by Alice Oswald
'The whole challenge of poetry', Alice Oswald once wrote, 'is to keep language open, so that what we don't yet know can pass through...
Review | Exposure by Olivia Sudjic
Exposure, Olivia Sudjic, Pensinsula Press, 2018, pp. 127, £6
Exposure, the new book by Olivia Sudjic, elegantly dissects the multi-layered web of anxieties particular to...
Unity in Variety VI at Gabriel Fine Arts
In the sixth edition of their most recent collaboration with Barikee, Gabriel Fine Arts showcased an expansive array of work, from the interpretive calligraphy...
Review | Rainsongs, by Sue Hubbard
Sue Hubbard’s Rainsongs has a unique and beautiful emotive quality that shines through its delicately constructed prose in a love-letter to Ireland, memory and parenthood,...
Designing Antiquity by Stephanie Moser
Apart from its scholarly and visual merits, this study deserves recognition as the second book-length work about Owen Jones, the once-famous Victorian architect and...