

1560s Venetian Gown in Two Days - Or How to Bring Renaissance Venice to your Sitting Room
Written by Amos Jevons Figure 1: The Lonely Courtesan In the grey pallor of February, when the damp winter air was just lifting, I felt...


Rebecca Horn; expanding the limits of the body.
Written by Emma Cormier Portrait of Rebecca Horn, image from Sean Kelly Gallery. Rebecca Horn was a visual artist and director, who...


Ingenues, Peek-a-boos, and Bombshells: My Favourite Blondes
Neither an Ingenue, nor a Bombshell, or a (real) Blonde Musings on Bette Davis and her 1935 film ‘Dangerous’ Written by Vuk Winrow Part...


The World of Tim Burton: Fantastic, eccentric…and a little commercial?
Written by Avigayil Ashton Many minds leave vivid, fantastical realms of imagination up to children. The strange, the peculiar and the...


Battling Queer Erasure: Orbán’s new ban on Pride
Written by Julia Hargitai This article comes to you in dark times. On Tuesday 18th March 2025, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán...


“Do you want to come cruising with me?”: Navigating Gay Sexual Identity in 1980s German Film
Written by Andrew Dearman As I settled into a screening of Coming Out (East Germany, 1989), I immediately noticed that it resembled...


Spring Awakening: An Eternal Revival of Romanticism
Written by Lorena Orlacchio Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare , 1781. Oil on Canvas, 101.7 × 127.1 × 2.1 cm. Detroit Institute of Arts,...

Spotlighting Feminism – Judy Chicago
Written by Cressie Edmondson In 1970, following the wave of feminist activity, an increase in recognition of the women’s liberation...


How the Baroque Bewilders: Creating Gowns from the 1670s.
Written by Amos Jevons The Sisters Wearing Dramatically Opposing Gowns In the months leading up to Christmas, I had two...


Helene Schjerfbeck, the unknown Finnish painter
The first time I came across Helene Schjerfbeck was in Ateneum, the Finnish National Gallery located in Helsinki. A poster of her most famou