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 […]
As well as being a valuable green space in South East London, Crystal Palace Park contains several reminders of the great industrial wonder that once stood here. The Wonder of the Age The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, commonly known as the Great Exhibition, took place from 1 May to […]
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 […]
Finishing up today in Grenada, we visit a very special spot in Rome Museum, a private labour of love and memory store for a community which has seen rapid change. Rome Museum In some ways, I have saved the best for last. This is my fourth post about Grenada. I introduced the tri-island state here, […]
No trip to Grenada is complete without exploring the story behind its most iconic export, and the Grenada Nutmeg Museum in Victoria tells it beautifully. Spice of the Island: A Short History of Nutmeg in Grenada After exploring the Grenada National Museum in St George’s, I couldn’t pass up the chance to dive deeper into […]
The Grenada National Museum is part of a trip to St George’s for many visitors to this island nation. As a museum it confounded my expectations, but on reflection this may point to an interesting decolonising of the museum and its exhibits. The Grenada National Museum With a day to spend in St George’s, there […]
The tri-island nation of Grenada is a great spot for holiday-makers who enjoy a good helping of history and culture with their beaches and rum punch. Grenada for Culture Lovers A couple of years after our very successful trip to Antigua, the Urban Geographer and I were looking for another destination for a week or […]
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 […]
