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Jan 5, 2021

They’re trying their best!

Why criticism of the government’s handling of students is unwarranted — Like all good Brits, I tuned in to watch the Prime Minister’s announcement last night. It was a shame that he did not mention anything about brexit, but I suppose there was no need to mention how great a success it has been when that would just be stating the…

Politics

4 min read


Dec 23, 2020

The Best of 2020

A (highly personal) ranking of the year’s best culture — Despite it often seeming like there was nothing else left to do, I found myself reluctant to watch, listen or read something new, or anything at all, for that matter. …

Culture

12 min read

The Best of 2020
The Best of 2020

Dec 16, 2020

The Slow Rebirth of Celebrity

How the currency of recognition became its own worst enemy — The last few months have seen a number of (really rather good) pieces written proclaiming 2020 as the year the concept of celebrity finally met its end. Celebrities, the argument goes, were so elevated from everyday life that they failed to grasp the horror that was life in a pandemic…

Celebrity

6 min read

The Slow Rebirth of Celebrity
The Slow Rebirth of Celebrity

Dec 9, 2020

Peering Behind the Painted Curtain

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s windows into art history — The power of Degas’ studies of ballet dancers lies in the fact that they are off-duty, as it were. Seeing the figures, slumped over, moody and stone-faced, the very premise of ballet, and indeed, all art is exposed. The figures we watch moving across the stage, perfectly symmetrical, perfectly in…

Art

5 min read

Peering Behind the Painted Curtain
Peering Behind the Painted Curtain

Jul 21, 2020

What happened to community art?

In 1973, Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery unveiled the exhibition Towards a Common Language. In it, blank ‘works’ were installed above boxes of art materials with visitors asked to make the art themselves. Once finished, they could take their work or leave it on display. …

Art

6 min read

What happened to community art?
What happened to community art?

Jan 4, 2020

If war should come

Seeing the news of Qasim Soleimani’s death doing the rounds on Twitter, my first reaction was relief. As a British-Iranian, his name wasn’t new to me and I’d heard about the horror he was unleashing across the Middle East. He was also doing this with a growing share of the…

Iran

5 min read

If war should come
If war should come

Aug 6, 2018

“Kathy was repulsed by her own indolence”

How Olivia Laing’s Crudo plays with the middle-class liberal to question their privilege — Rarely is a novel so targeted to a specific audience as Olivia Laing’s fiction debut. Its cover uses a photograph by Wolfgang Tillmans, astro crusto to be precise. Those who recognise the image feel a certain pride at having done so, a testament to their intellectual and cultural proficiency. They…

Politics

7 min read


Jul 30, 2018

Pain, privilege and performance in Jordan Wolfson’s Colored Sculpture

I In the centre of a white platform lies a boy, still, limp. The only sign of life is to be found in his eyes, blinking, moving around the space, staring pleadingly at those of us in the room. This eerie reverie is shattered with Percy Sledge’s When a Man Loves…

Art

9 min read

Pain, privilege and performance in Jordan Wolfson’s Colored Sculpture
Pain, privilege and performance in Jordan Wolfson’s Colored Sculpture

Jul 27, 2018

SELLFRIDGES

Nestled away in a smaller gallery away from the bustle of the Royal Academy’s main space, a visitor to this year’s Summer Exhibiton would be able to see Patrick Dalton’s SELLFRIDGES, provided that they are able to spot it, given that it is surrounded by a number of larger, more…

Photography

4 min read

SELLFRIDGES
SELLFRIDGES
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