An illustrated visit to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. In which I admire the building immensely, but have trouble paying attention until the end. Cambridge In The Quiet Season The last installment on the blog was this trip out to IWM Duxford near Cambridge. My partner and I recently spent a few days in Cambridge, […]
A review of the Imperial War Museum (IWM) Duxford. What a lot to see, at this expansive satellite of the IWM focused (mostly) on air transport. Those Magnificent Men (And Women) In Their Flying Machines This post marks the beginning of an excursion to Cambridgeshire which the Salterton Arts Review undertook recently. Over the next […]
A bold way for the Young Vic to reopen post-lockdown, Changing Destiny is a foray into storytelling, speaking to us across 4,000 years of history. The Story of Sinuhe Many of us have probably not heard of Sinuhe. He is a character from a story thousands of years old, from Egypt’s prosperous Middle Kingdom. The […]
A return to an old favourite – the Dulwich Picture Gallery – now that I live in South East London once more. And a chance to explore Unearthed: Photography’s Roots, an interesting if rather academic photographic exhibition. Revisiting the Dulwich Picture Gallery It’s been a while since I visited the Dulwich Picture Gallery! It is […]
A review of The Two Character Play, a Tennessee Williams play which originally premiered right here at the Hampstead Theatre. But was I going mad, or was the play? The Two Character Play – A Late Work By Tennessee Williams I knew very little about The Two Character Play going into this. Just a brief […]
A review of Nina Raine’s new play Bach & Sons, on at the Bridge Theatre and starring Simon Russell Beale. I learned a lot, despite wondering what the ‘point’ of the play was at times. A Learned Play About A Learned Man Long-time readers know that I don’t know a whole lot about classical music […]
A review of a visit to the Horniman Museum, including their temporary exhibition An Ode to Afrosurrealism. In which I think the Horniman have done a pretty good job of modernising the ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’/ethnographic museum format. Tell Me About The Horniman Museum So the Horniman Museum is interesting in terms of London’s museum landscape. […]
A review of Bagdad Cafe, a vibrant play which reopens the Old Vic. The mood will stay with me longer than the story, but a fun evening nonetheless. From The Californian Desert To The Old Vic Sometimes I think that if my knowledge of films were better, I wouldn’t have so many surprises when going […]
A review of Claudia Andujar: The Yanomami Struggle, a photography retrospective with a political and indigenous rights agenda. Beautiful and haunting, Andujar’s work is more important now than it has been in several decades. Who Are The Yanomami? “Ah yes, the Yanomami” said my other half when I came home after seeing this exhibition. “Everyone […]
A review of Handel & Hendrix in London. Musical neighbours, separated only by a wall and a couple of centuries. Handel And Hendrix – That’s A Strange Mix! Well yes, it is rather! But it is a self-selecting mix. George Frideric Handel lived in London from 1712 until his death in 1759. He moved into […]
