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,...
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...
The Soane Museum
London is full of nice places spoilt by too many people. Covent Garden, Richmond and Tate Modern would be delightful if you could halve...
Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler
The latest novelistic offering in Hogarth Shakespeare’s project to refashion the bard’s tales into contemporary retellings, Vinegar Girl compellingly revitalises one of Shakespeare’s most...
Review | Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up and Dorothea Lange:...
Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up, Victoria & Albert Museum, Circe Henestrosa & Claire Wilcox, until November 4th 2018
Dorothea Lange: The Politics of Seeing,...
Sargent: The Watercolours at the Dulwich Picture Gallery
John Singer Sargent is best known as a painter of portraits in oil. Since childhood, however, he was also a keen watercolorist, and a...
The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography from the Sir Elton John Collection
“It’s not about how great the collection is. It’s about the photographers who took the photographs…how they changed the art form forever.”
While he still...
Review | Theatre | The Unreturning at the Everyman Theatre
Frantic Assembly’s latest project “The Unreturning” arrives at Theatre Royal Stratford East in January 2019. This time, their celebrated physicality explores the lives of...
Painting with Light
There is a scene in Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited in which the odious Boy Mulcaster interrogates Charles Ryder, painter and protagonist, as to why...
7 London Museums That You Might Have Missed
London is full of big-name museums, but it is also home to numerous small and hidden establishments. While The British Museum merits infinite visits,...
Review | The Triumph of Cancer by Chris McCabe
The scientific language used by doctors to describe cancer—the uncontrollable growth of a single cell—is often mystifying and alienating. Can the experience of cancer...
Review | Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele at the Royal Academy
In chapter 5 of Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities the protagonist Ulrich sets about restoring a house he has just bought:
Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins
The American West has always been home to grifters and thieves, dreamers and doers. It has been a destination for the misfits, for the...
Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
What do we think of when we think of myths? For children, myths are something unquestionable and magical. They present a world removed from...
Fragment of the Fringe: a Reflection. By Oliver Wood
The fringe, so say the mummers, has become over-commercialised in recent years. Too many agents, too much spin, a lack of government support, not...
Review | Green Noise by Jean Sprackland
Green Noise, Jean Sprackland, Jonathan Cape, 2018, 64pp, £10.00
With Green Noise, the fifth collection from Jean Sprackland, she attunes us to a planetary resonance. Many of...
Review | Louder Than Hearts by Zeina Hashem Beck
‘Louder than Hearts has it all’, writes Betsy Sholl, judge of the 2016 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize, ‘compelling language and a sense...
Review | Salvador Dali At Home
Salvador Dali At Home, Jackie De Burca, Quarto, 2018, pp. 176, Hardcover, £25
Salvador Dali at Home is a book that seeks to unveil the places...
Review | Krzysztof Gil: Welcome to the Country Where the Gypsy...
On view at l’étrangère gallery in East London is the first ever UK solo exhibition by the Polish Roma artist Krzysztof Gil. Entitled Welcome...
Review | Summer and Smoke at The Duke of York’s Theatre
A poetic vision of human nature and our existential struggle to forge the middle ground between body and soul. After writing his (in)famous A...
Review | Space Shifters at the Hayward Gallery
An unmitigated treat if you love conceptual art installations and sculptures, SPACE SHIFTERS features twenty artists exploring our perception of space and 'optical' minimalism.
Spanning...
Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
… And could she disentangle it, the stuff she’d seen in her mind’s eye, from the actual stuff of her own life?
In 1935, fleeing...
Howard Hodgkin: Absent Friends at the National Portrait Gallery
According to a new exhibition of Howard Hodgkin’s work at the National Portrait Gallery, one of the artist’s principal concerns throughout his sixty-five year...
Review | The Pleasures of Queuing by Erik Martiny
Erik Martiny The Pleasures of Queueing
Mastodon Publishing 2018
ISBN 978-1-7320091-1-0
In chapter 13 of his very funny and entirely absorbing novel, Erik Martiny has his narrator and...