The Life of Vinyl in the Material World
By Freddie Bond I walked into my local HMV store just after Christmas. I was surprised its doors were still open as I thought HMV had...
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...
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...