Fiction | The Word Necklace by Suzannah V. EvansFiction, WritingThe word necklace was intricate, beautiful. When she put it on it felt light, beautiful, as if she were wearing…
Matisse in the Studio at Royal Academy of ArtsNews, Reviews, Writing‘My life is between the walls of my studio’, Matisse once declared. Matisse in the Studio, currently showing at the…
Sargent: The Watercolours at the Dulwich Picture GalleryReviews, WritingJohn Singer Sargent is best known as a painter of portraits in oil. Since childhood, however, he was also a…
Book Launch at Enitharmon: Stephen Romer and Alan JenkinsReviews, WritingThe light, bright space of Enitharmon bookshop in Bloomsbury was filled with jostlings and murmurings as more and more people…
Poetry London Summer Readings: Rachael Allen, Andrew McMillan, Vahni Capildeo and Emily BerryReviews, WritingPoetry London’s summer launch opened with an impassioned speech by the poet Karen McCarthy Wood, who is a trustee on…
Joel Shapiro at Pace LondonReviews, WritingWalking into the Joel Shapiro exhibition at the Pace gallery is like entering a painting, as a friend of mine…
Poetry at the Print Room: Kayo Chingonyi, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Daljit NagraNewsPlush red cushions. Red floorboards. Flickering candles and the walls hung with a myriad of mirrors. We were sitting in…
Picasso: Minotaurs and Matadors at the GagosianReviews, WritingThe Minotaur was a key figure in Picasso’s imagination and art, so much so that the artist once remarked that…
Faber Reading: An Evening with Emily Berry, Emma Jones, Zaffar Kunial, Daljit Nagra, Richard ScottReviews, WritingThe Crypt on the Green in Clerkenwell Close was beautifully lit with fairy lights, and the low chatter of poetry…
Howard Hodgkin: Absent Friends at the National Portrait GalleryNews, Reviews, WritingAccording to a new exhibition of Howard Hodgkin’s work at the National Portrait Gallery, one of the artist’s principal concerns…
An interview with Paul BenneyInterviews, WritingIf you walk along one of the leafy roads from Hackney Downs and turn down a little side street, you…
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