On my second visit to Barcelona I finally made it to Park Güell – a long-postponed Gaudí landmark well worth the wait. Park Güell: First Impressions and a Return to Gaudí This visit to Park Güell continues my reflection on Gaudí’s work, following my time at the Sagrada Família museum. But while that church is […]
Returning to the Sagrada Família 18 months after my first visit offered a new perspective as I explored the museum beneath the church. Returning to the Sagrada Família: A Second Look, A Deeper Focus Revisiting a major landmark on a return trip is something I rarely do. I tend to seek out new places and […]
Back in Barcelona for a conference, I found unexpected calm and beauty at the Reial Monestir de Pedralbes on a quiet Sunday afternoon. A Fortunate Return: First Steps Towards Pedralbes I found myself back in Barcelona by good fortune, almost 18 months after my first visit. This time, like before, I wasn’t here primarily for […]
Artistic inspiration takes form in Kiefer / Van Gogh, exploring how the places, subjects and intentions in Van Gogh’s work have inspired Anselm Kiefer over the years. Why Kiefer / Van Gogh? The latest exhibition at the Royal Academy (aside, of course, from the Summer Exhibition) sees an interesting pairing of artists take over the […]
Lubaina Himid and fellow Black and Asian women artists continue a project decades in the making in Connecting Thin Black Lines 1985-2025. A Return Trip to the ICA With London’s cultural scene as vast and vibrant as it is, there are most definitely a few venues I don’t visit often enough. Not through lack of […]
Tate Modern’s Leigh Bowery! offers a vivid, if restrained, look at one of performance art’s most unruly icons. Leigh Bowery! Before you say anything, I know I’m at the point in the exhibition cycle again where I’m not leaving you much time to see things. My apologies. In my defense it’s a constantly busy museum […]
A sculpture of William S. Burroughs becomes an unlikely confidant in Lost Watches, a playful and chaotic absurdist comedy at Park Theatre. Lost Watches Right, let’s get one thing out of the way: I know very little about the Beat Generation. One of whom is central to today’s play, Lost Watches. But theatre’s as good […]
Static Lives, by Two Parachutes, is a sharp, intimate two-hander about friendship, numbness, and how we try to stay human in the digital age. Content Warning: mentions of violence and suicide. Static Lives Today marks the fifth work I’ve seen as part of this year’s Camden Fringe, and the third at Etcetera Theatre. It’s also […]
Rooted in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian, Shedwood is a short, striking piece of physical theatre that explores transformation in raw, bodily terms. Shedwood I found myself thinking about some very eclectic comparisons as I watched Shedwood, a new work written and directed by Yuchen Zhou, with set and costume designed with Kailin Xu, who also […]
I like the idea behind the Barbican’s Feel the Sound, perhaps a little more than the actual experience of visiting. Feel the Sound The Barbican bill their current exhibition Feel the Sound as an “exhibition experience on a different frequency.” This is a clever play on words, but also mostly true. Feel the Sound takes […]
