Where Industry meets Humanity: Johanna Unzueta at Modern Art Oxford
Upon first entering the gallery I was struck by the sheer scale of Unzueta’s sculptural centrepiece – a huge felt chain, draping down from...
Review: Facial Recognition
In
“Facial Recognition”, the main organiser, Lucy Tirahan’s ambition is clear: to
break the unspoken taboos surrounding mixed-ethnic heritage.
The exhibition is extremely successful. It
avoids romanticizing while...
Ai Weiwei: Roots
Ai Weiwei’s 'Roots' exhibition at the Lisson Gallery in London may seem rather abstract upon first glance yet it provokes reflection on a range of issues from the 'uprootedness' of the refugee crisis to government corruption and civil disobedience.
Hogarth: Place and Progress
Prostitution, criminality, madness, lust, and squalor. William Hogarth’s collection of paintings and prints at the Sir John Soane’s Museum satirize 18th century urban crudities through graphic pictorial dramatizations and dark wit.
Intricate Designs: Stanley Kubrick at the Design Museum
Walking around the Stanley Kubrick exhibition at the London Design Museum in South Kensington, the overwhelming impression you get is of a man meticulous to a fault.
“Queering Spires”: Museum’s appeal for queer history exhibition
The curators of an upcoming exhibition celebrating Oxford’s everyday queer history are appealing for local people to loan memorabilia.
“Queering Spires” is a collaboration between...
Culture Under Attack
The Imperial War Museum. Think cannons, guns and fighter aircraft. Think Teenage Kicks being blasted out at full volume? Culture Under Attack brings together unlikely connections between art and conflict.
Last Supper in Pompeii
The enticing title doesn’t do justice, however, to the breadth of the collection: 400 objects from around the Roman world and beyond, covering centuries, showcasing the Romans’ relationship to food and drink.
Flagrant Exhibitionism: The Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition
Running since 1769, the Summer Exhibition is the world’s largest open-submission art show. From film to photography and prints to paintings (and everything in between) the show brings together the world’s leading artists of all mediums, both household names and total unknowns.
Olafur Eliasson: In Real Life
Olafur Eliasson’s “In real life”, which is on until 5th
January 2020, is a truly must-see exhibition at the Tate Modern. All forty of
this Danish-Islandic...
Kiss My Genders – Celebrating identity with the Hayward Gallery
The Hayward Gallery's huge curation 'Kiss my Genders' attempts to unite over thirty artists from the LGBTQ+ community in a celebration of gender identity and fluidity. Charlotte Hall gathers her impressions of the exhibitions - how effective is it at breaking down stereotypes and prejudice?
“Delightfully creepy”: “Spellbound” at the Ashmolean review
[The exhibition] is delightfully creepy, especially the sections where the artefacts are resting on the glass above you in chimney-like structures, forcing you to walk into dark little alcoves and crane your neck up to see them.
Review- V&A’s Frida Kahlo: Making Herself Up
An exhibition that tells a personal story of heritage, politics, heartbreak and pain.
This brave new world is dark and lonely
America’s Cool Modernism shows us a society terrified of the world it created
