Now this is more like it: the Royal Collection of Italian Renaissance drawings is on display in all its glory at the King’s Gallery, with plenty of detail about how these extraordinary works came to be. Drawing the Italian Renaissance Is this my final last minute exhibition review for the winter season? Perhaps. Unless I […]
Multidisciplinary artist Makiko Harris brings Needle Dance to an unexpected art space in East London, giving audiences the opportunity to explore her take on Japanese folklore, feminism, and fate. Needle Dance For those of you who will be in the Shoreditch/Old Street/Hoxton area of East London in the coming days, I have found you an […]
Rebecca Frecknall’s take on A Streetcar Named Desire is powerful and poised in all the right places. A Streetcar Named Desire London was once again a city of second chances yesterday, as I saw A Streetcar Named Desire at the Noël Coward Theatre, having missed the production’s original run at the Almeida. When I saw […]
A Pleasance Theatre double bill of Oh My Pain, My Beautiful Pain! and Acid’s Reign, two very different productions as part of Relish Theatre’s Regeneration Season which nonetheless add up to an exhilarating evening of hard-hitting themes wrapped in inventive drag and cabaret packages. A Double Bill at the Pleasance Theatre, London It’s been a […]
Migrant-led theatre company Maria Who? take on immigration and hostile environments in their debut production, Miss Brexit. Miss Brexit It’s been a while since I’ve been to the Omnibus Theatre. Time flies when you’re having fun, I suppose. But I was very pleased, last night, to have the opportunity to return and see Miss Brexit, […]
The Silk Road (or Roads) is an interesting topic which seems to speak to the current Zeitgeist. But unless you love being part of a long queue, you’re better off reading the catalogue than coming to the British Museum. Silk Roads: Part of the Zeitgeist? Back in November I shared my experience of seeing A […]
The premise is interesting, the works are good, the presentation isn’t bad. So what was I missing at Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael: Florence c. 1504? Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael: Florence c. 1504 You’re going to be putting up with a few more last minute reviews in the coming weeks, I’m afraid. There was Hew Locke at the […]
A well-structured exhibition at the British Library, Medieval Women: In Their Own Words brings to life the evidence for women’s contributions to the private, public and religious spheres of medieval life. At the British Library Once More After an absence of a couple of years, I have visited the British Library twice in recent months […]
Alexander Raptotasios’s new adaptation Antigone [on strike] brings this classic tale forward into the age of social media, globalised geopolitics, and real time democracy. Antigone [on strike] As I’m sure I’ve said on the blog before, the classics are classics for a reason. It’s astounding the way that certain stories from the ancient world continue […]
Blending artefacts and contemporary art, Hew Locke interrogates the archives and stores of the British Museum in order to ask timely and important questions about museums and their relationship to power, history-telling and colonialism. Hew Locke: what have we here? The Salterton Arts Review has been a little preoccupied in January, and so it was […]
