Transcending spaces through children's stories by Sara Quattrocchi Febles 1st July 2020 This review was written in late March when Fondazione Prada was closed. It is now open to visitors and the exhibition period of Storytelling has been extended to 10 January 2021. ​ I close my eyes and I’m back in the concrete village of Fondazione Prada in Milan, where 35 paintings by Chinese painter Liu Ye are displayed. To think that February 15, the day I visited it, was not so far off

Illustration by Vitoria Mendes Harris Reed may have only just finished their final year at Central Saint Martins, but the young designer is well on their way to revolutionising the fashion industry. Their ethereal, non-binary looks are becoming widely celebrated for embracing genderfluidity, and provoking discussion around self-identity and expression in the modern age. At 24, they have already dressed the likes of Solange Knowles and Florence Welch. This early success appear

Celebrate Pride from home! by Cas Bradbeer 22nd June 2020 QHF Pride Poster by Queer Heritage Forum (Courtesy of @QHForum) The Courtauld has been invited by the Queer Heritage Forum to join PrideOnline2020! From Monday, June 22, through Saturday, June 27, this week, check out @QHForum on Twitter for a series of events, podcasts, videos, craftivism activities and much more. “The Queer Heritage Forum is a collection of international heritage sector workers/freelancers who are vo

Or the suspended theatre of life by Reine Okuliar | 9 June 2020 Nicolas Poussin, The Plague at Ashdod, 1630, oil on canvas, 148 cm × 198 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris (Courtesy of the Louvre) In these times of pandemic, as half of the world population is confined in their homes because of Covid-19, there has been a revived interest for literature around plague, notably Albert Camus’s La Peste that saw its sales surged. In Camus’s novel, the doctors that first notice unexplainabl

The racial injustice that goes beyond the USA By Sara Quattrocchi Febles | 4 June 2020 Find information and resources on cases of racial injustice present in other countries and in other languages here. I’ve spent the last week thinking about what I could do beyond sharing donation links, donating money, and informing myself properly on what the media doesn’t tell us and on what history at school doesn’t teach us. I know this is already something but I’m frustrated because I

Artwork of the Month | June Isaac Huxtable I took this photo of my mum pretty early on into lockdown. I came back to my native town of Huddersfield just before it started, and I’ve been up here ever since. With the conversations going on around race and the pandemic, I’m feeling stressed, scared, angry, fed up and sick of it. I think as a Black person right now it’s important to take some time out from the constant pain of this constant conversation, before the  conversation