

Twenty Years Later, ‘Princess Mononoke’ Is Still My Number One
To my sister Céleste, Last time I watched ‘Princess Mononoke’ on a big screen, I was seven. It was in the independent arts cinema called...


Paul Nash Review: Mysterious Places
Paul Nash, We Are Making a New World, 1918. Image Source: Imperial War Museum/Tate 'There are places, just as there are people and...


Interview: Professor Joanna Woodall, or how to be in the world as an academic
Joanna Woodall is a leading expert on Early Modern Netherlandish Art, with a strong commitment to teaching students about methodologies...


The Nose by Nikolai Gogol
Enter Nikolai Gogol’s The Nose, a work of wild surrealism that is just the thing to reset your mind and lift your spirits. Although Gogol...


John Berger: "Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one."
Image source: Franck Courtès/Agence Vu John Berger died on 2nd January 2017. Many obituaries begin with the most basic of facts, such as...


Modern Art Oxford at 50
REVIEW: 'Kaleidoscope: The Vanished Reality', currently showing at Modern Art Oxford Louise Lawler, Still Life (candle) (traced), 2003 /...


Interview with Alexandra Gerstein, curator of ‘Rodin and Dance: the Essence of Movement’
Dr Alexandra Gerstein, curator of Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Courtauld Gallery, has curated the new exhibition ‘Rodin and...


Review: Sylvie Franquet: reMembering at October Gallery
Sylvie Franquet, Prisoner of Love, 2016. Wool, acrylic and lurex on cotton canvas sewn into ash frame, 80 x 100 cm. Photo: Jonathan Greet...


Eyes on the Prizes
Should you care about literary prizes? Autumn is the most exciting time of year for books. Hundreds of long-awaited titles are released...


'Lo and Behold' by Werner Herzog
Image: author's own. ‘Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World’, 2016 dir: Werner Herzog The Internet, Documentary Science Fiction,...


