Echoes of Nostalgia; Examining the Sentimental Impact of Music
By Millie Grainger ‘Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory— Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they...
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine—How to capture the past, present, and future
By Mathilda Drukier I first saw Hiroshi Sugimoto’s works over summer at the Tate Modern’s Capturing the Moment, an exhibition which I...
Happy Christmas (War Is Over), Love, John & Yoko
By Katie Gillespie In December 1969, then British Prime Minister Harold Wilson received a Christmas card with the words, ‘War is Over! If...
An Apparition of Caesar in the Bedchamber of Brutus
By Sofia Genco-Billington A heavy night. Moon-sick and sweating with rain. Brutus lays naked and alone on his bed, watching water rush...
Urban Wyrd and Rural Weirder: Folklore and the Afrosurreal in Donald Glover’s Atlanta
By Eve Reid Still from ‘Helen’, Atlanta, 2018, directed by Amy Seimetz. In his 2023 essay, ‘Who Makes The Hood?: The City, Community and...
The World Imagined: Entering Hugo Simberg’s Fantasy
By Gabrielle Kezia “We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark; and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the...
Drawing from Life: the David Hockney Exhibition at National Portrait Gallery
By Yoyo Hou What do you expect to see in the exhibition of one of the most famous artists in the world? Some astonishing masterpieces...
The sentimentality of the present: A review of A Month in Siena by Hisham Matar
By Mariam Pari Duccio di Buoninsegna, The Healing of the Man Born Blind. Egg tempura on wood. 45.1 x 46.7cm. The National Gallery....
Horoscope predictions - December 2023
By Alexis Nanavaty and ‘The Guides’ Hilma af Klint (Oct. 1862- Oct. 1944), a Swedish artist and medium, communicated with other...
A Nest of One’s Own: Making a Home in Deborah Levy’s “Real Estate”
By Michelle Hui Claude Monet, Snow Scene at Argenteuil, 1875. Oil on canvas, 71.1 x 91.4 cm, The National Gallery, London. From:...