The Lady from the Sea – 5 Stars
I begin with a caveat. I don’t much like Ibsen. To be honest, I don’t much like a lot of ‘classic’ old (male) writers. I find Chekhov...
Dennis Severs’ House Review
Here is a sensation I would like to bottle as a sal volatile for monotone days: that of emerging from a darkened movie theatre into the...
The Favourite: Duck Racing, Voguing and Sapphism in the Court of Queen Anne.
It’s a Tuesday night at a cinema in Peckham, we’re sat in Screen 4. The atmosphere feels giddy with anticipation for what we’re about to...
A Victorious Protégé
One hundred years after their deaths in 1918, some one hundred drawings by the Austrian artists Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele from...
The “ubiquitous” interactive medium and the radically innovative art form: Videogames: Design/Play/D
What comes to your mind when you think of videogames? If you are a so-called ‘hardcore gamer’ or a game enthusiast, games are...
A rare, beautiful stasis: Steve McQueen’s Widows
Widows grabs you. It puts you deep into the tight streets of Chicago and paints an image of struggle and poverty sandwiched against...
The Importance of Ambitious Political Rhetoric: The West Wing, Season One - A Review
It is not often one is able to decipher why we are drawn to the things we are, but in cases like this, it is less important to consider...
Svetlana Kuznetsova: Reflections on Life in the USSR
Wandering around the Other Art Fair in early October, I am drawn to the macabre sculptures of Svetlana Kuznetsova. Delicate gems and...
La Bohème review
Illustration by Anna Seibæk Torp-Pedersen. Upon taking someone to the opera for the first time, I might well choose Puccini’s La Bohème....
From London to Paris: A Journey of The Scents
'Perfume: A Sensory Journey Through Contemporary Scent' at Somerset House. Photograph by Peter MacDiarmid After the virtual reality show...