I was invited to see Time Travelogues From Those Left Waiting, a film and installation by Harmeet Singh Rahal at the Acme Propeller Factory, and found myself drawn into a world where time is fluid and powerful. Time Travelogues From Those Left Waiting There’s a line that repeats in Time Travelogues From Those Left Waiting, […]
Who knew a coffee shop in a billionaire’s doomsday bunker could serve up such a funny, well-observed and quietly dystopian two-hander? It’s Not About Coffee certainly hits the spot. It’s Not About Coffee You don’t necessarily go into a play set in an underground coffee shop built by a tech billionaire with especially high hopes […]
Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting at the National Portrait Gallery – a raw, compelling look at the body, form, and feminist art from one of the UK’s leading contemporary painters. A First Encounter with Jenny Saville I was glad to catch this exhibition early in its run (OK, fine, it then took me a […]
Ithell Colquhoun offers a compelling introduction to a quietly radical Surrealist who merged nature and the occult into a singular artistic vision. Getting Value from that Two-for-One Ticket Recently on the blog, I wrote about Tate Britain’s exhibition Edward Burra. It was, I said, very refreshing to have the enormous Tate Britain temporary exhibition space […]
Places I Never Think About is a tender, funny, and richly crafted piece of queer storytelling, using music, folklore, and puppetry to bring Eastern European myths to life. Places I Never Think About There’s something deeply human about storytelling at its most essential. A circle of listeners, voices across generations weaving and embellishing old stories. […]
The Globe’s Romeo and Juliet, transplanted to the Wild West, gains more visually than textually from the shift. At the Globe on a Hot Summer’s Day Gosh, it’s been such a long time since I visited Shakespeare’s Globe. Years, in fact. Time does get away on you a bit, doesn’t it? And the Salterton Arts […]
Edward Burra’s vivid, unsettling vision is given rare breathing room in this well-curated and thoughtful exhibition. Two-for-One Exhibitions: The Perfect Solution It’s no secret I often find Tate Britain’s exhibition galleries overwhelming. In fact I complain about it so frequently, even I’m sick of it! The winding trek through its ground floor temporary exhibition space […]
A promising concept, Who is Claude Cahun? does a lot more explaining than it does exploration of a complex, compelling identity. Who is Claude Cahun? Well, to start off with, I’ve seen the play now and I’m still not sure I know the answer to this question. Or at least not more than I did […]
Lucia Martinez’s The Room of Piss returns in an expanded version that builds on its inventive physical theatre and quirky energy to explore themes of chronic illness. The Room of Piss I recently returned to The Room of Piss, having first seen its shorter iteration at the Barons Court Theatre during the Voila! Theatre Festival […]
In Heiress: Sargent’s American Portraits at Kenwood House, John Singer Sargent’s luminous images of Gilded Age heiresses reveal women wielding beauty, money, and portraiture to cross oceans, claim titles, and shape their own mythologies. Heiress at Kenwood House: A Fitting Setting for Transatlantic Dreams There could hardly be a more appropriate venue for Heiress: Sargent’s […]
