Review | Faust at the Royal Opera House
Faust, the epitome of grand French opera and Gonoud’s masterpiece returns to Covent Garden in this fifth revival of David…
Review | Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2019 at The Photographers’ Gallery
Each room immerses the viewer in the artist’s expert documentation. We are encouraged to do more than just observe the…
Review | Bindlestiff by Wayne Holloway
2036. In a ramshackle, backwater United States, Marine Corps vet Frank Dubois journeys from L.A. to Detroit, seeking redemption for…
Review | WITCH by Rebecca Tamás
Briony Willis WITCH WITCH, by Rebecca Tamás, Penned in the Margins, pp. 119, £9.99. (paperback) In her latest collection, WITCH, Rebecca…
Review | One Thing by Xanthi Barker and The Prick by Mazin Saleem
Xanthi Barker’s One Thing and Mazin Saleem’s The Prick are the second and third of the Open Pen Novelette series,…
Review | Counterpoint at the Stanley Spencer Gallery
Considered one of Britain’s most significant artists Stanley Spencer is famous for his singular vision, but Counterpoint sets out to demonstrate…
Review | Top Girls at the National Theatre
One of the great things about Caryl Churchill is her use of history to explore the present and anticipate the…
Essay | What branches grow out of this stony rubbish? by Tom Jeffreys
Tom Jeffreys “What branches grow out of this stony rubbish?” Some notes on the art of Yelena Popova, Joanna Rajkowska,…
Review | Dorothea Tanning at Tate Modern
Birthday (1942) hangs opposite the entrance to the first room. Tanning stands proud yet forlorn, shirt as open as the…
Review | The Realm of the Punisher: Travels in Duterte’s Philippines by Tom Sykes
Tom Sykes, The Realm of Punisher: Travels in Duterte’s Philippines, Signal Books, November 2019, pp. 288, £12.99 The Realm of…
Review | La Forza Del Destino at the Royal Opera House
The Royal Opera House has brought together the best cast in the world right now for their new production of…
Review | The Neighbourhood by Hannah Lowe
Hannah Lowe’s fourth chapbook, The Neighbourhood, begins with a winding dotted line that travels from the first to the second…
Review | Iolanta and L’enfant et les sortilèges at Royal Academy Opera
The Royal Academy Opera put on a sumptuous double bill of one-act operas: Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta and Ravel’s L’enfant et les…
Review | Little Boy by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lawrence Ferlinghetti is about to turn one hundred years old, and he still has plenty to say. In his work…
Review | Animalia by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo
“When she finds a worm buried in the heart of a plum, an apple, she looks at it, shows it,…
Review | How Chicago! Imagists 1960s & 70s at Goldsmiths CCA
How Chicago! Imagists 1960s & 70s opens at the Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art on the 15th March, showing until…
Review | Circa at Old Red Lion Theatre
Circa, written by Tom Ratcliffe and directed by Andy Twyman is meant to be a story about modern gay life.…
Review | Henry Hudson — nothing sticks to nothing at Hannah Barry Gallery
The story being told is not one of words, but of a language that finds roots beyond symbols defined by…
Review | Emotive Brutes at Trate Studios
Far from the crowded and anxious streets of a city that has made insomnia the rule, sits the rare exception,…
Review | Don McCullin at Tate Britain
We live in an era in which we see more images than ever before in human history. When we see…
Review | The Cemetery in Barnes by Gabriel Josipovici
“After all, everyone has fantasies. In the one life there are many lives. Alternative lives. Some are lived and others…
Review | Leminscate by Chris Viner
Leminscate, Chris Viner, Unsolicited Press, 2017, pp. 72 The 6th isn’t busy. Six days since the attack And inside the…
Review | The Monstrous Child at The Royal Opera House
The newly refurbished Linbury Theatre in the Royal Opera House is having its first opera performances with the world premiere…
Review | Abuse II, The Uncanny by Alessio Bolzoni
At first you see the bodies and ask yourself why – that is how the story begins, how the narrative…
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