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....
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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:...
A Visit to St Bartholomew the Great
By Freddie Bond Whilst walking to my seminar at the Barbican gallery the other week, with spare time and looking for a break from the...
The City of Concrete Sets the Stage for a Greener Future
A Review of Re/Sisters: A Lens on Gender and Ecology By Minna Church Barbara Kruger, Untitled (we won’t play nature to your culture),...
Seen and not Heard: The Construction of Childhood in the Psychological Thriller
By Eve Reid [Trigger Warning: discussions of suicide and violence against children and adults.] Scandinavian and Western European...
Now I Understand Why the Pen Is Mightier Than the Sword, Why Words Are Named as Weapons.
By Carys Maloney Gustave Doré (1832-1883), Arachne (c 1867), engraving for Dante’s Purgatory Now I understand why the pen is mightier...
La Bourse de Commerce: The Museum that is Taking Paris by Storm
By Mathilda Drukier The Bourse de Commerce, which recently took over Paris in May 2021, is François Pinault’s third museum (Palazzo...