
Giambattista Valli: Bringing Drama to the High Street
H&M has a long track record of collaborations, having worked with nineteen haute couture designers since 2004. This lofty roll call...

Pay and Pensions: The UCU Strike
The eight-day strike action requires student support to bring into effect real change and secure a better future for universities....

The Sackler Research Forum: A Useful Research Platform
The twinkling fairy lights dangling in the Sackler Research Forum are surprisingly alluring; it looks cozy and ambient. I am sure that...


Björk is Dead,Long Live Björk
Split into many parts Splattered light beams into prisms That will reunite ~ The Gate (Björk/Arca) For anybody vaguely aware of music as...

Dressing with Dissent
The month of October has been one of protest. Dissatisfied with the English government’s response to climate change, swathes of people...


Canaletto’s Eternal Venice
In Venice, there are only one or two paintings by Canaletto (1697-1768), nearly everything he produced is to be found in Britain, thanks...


The End of May
And there we have it: the reign of May is at an end. On Friday morning the Prime Minister stepped up to a podium set before the door of...


May’s Days are Numbered & Monet Goes for Stacks
To begin with a bit of art news for a change, at Sotheby’s New York this week one of Claude Monet’s series of haystack paintings was sold...


‘Velvet Buzzsaw’: Artfully Dodge this Horror
I am usually the first to avoid horror films, but the trailer for Netflix’s Velvet Buzzsaw intrigued me. A horror film concerning the art...


Vote, Vote, and Vote Again: Brexit Deadlock
The one time I take a week off from bringing you a window into the world of news and all hell breaks loose. Since I last wrote, March...