The First Bad Man by Miranda July
Cheryl Glickman — isolated, alone and with no true friends to speak of — is an acute example of the…
11th May, Hay Fever
Press night for Hay Fever on a summer’s eve: the red carpet rolled out in front of the Duke of York theatre;…
Portraits of Artists and Friends – John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent – Portraits of Artists and Friends, National Portrait Gallery 12 February – 25 May 2015 If you…
Princess Ida
Princess Ida, Finborough Theatre, Until 18th April 2015 One’s first experience of seeing a play at Finborough theatre is really rather charming.…
Shakespeare in Love
Shakespeare in Love, Noel Coward Theatre It is so rare to find a play that has perfected the balance between comedy,…
One Thousand Things Worth Knowing by Paul Muldoon and Sentenced to Life by Clive James
These are two very contrastive books both making a clear announcement through their titles. The first is brash, claiming something…
Late Turner: Paintings Set Free
At risk of pointing out the obvious, it should be said before anything else, that J. M. W. Turner was…
Miss Saigon by Heather Wells
Miss Saigon, Prince Edward Theatre, January 2015 Sir Cameron Mackintosh’s new production of Miss Saigon, currently on at the Prince Edward…
The Trials of Oscar Wilde, Trafalgar Studios II
The Trials of Oscar Wilde is currently showing for its last week at Trafalgar Studios, formerly Whitehall Theatre. It is…
Back to Painting – Danny Fox
It’s a strange time in the history of the visual arts avant-garde right now. So strange that the vast majority…
Virginia Woolf – Art, Life and Vision
Virginia Woolf viewed greatness as a “positive possession”. In her mind greatness was “a bodily presence; it has nothing to…
Truth and Memory at The Imperial War Museum
The walk from Waterloo station to The Imperial War Museum is one of London’s dreariest, second only to any perambulation…
The Soane Museum
London is full of nice places spoilt by too many people. Covent Garden, Richmond and Tate Modern would be delightful…
I Wish I Was Lonely by Hannah Jane Walker
For what seemed to be the first time in my life, I was asked to leave my mobile phone on…
The Human Factor v Matisse by Richard Warburton
The Southbank Centre is currently hosting the emetic Festival of Love under whose banner falls a twenty five year retrospective,…
A FIRST WORLD PROBLEM
Theatre503 is a small, intimate and rather quirky theatre found in The Latchmere pub, a short walk away from Clapham…
Resurrection by Jessica Albarn – Lawrence Alkin Gallery
If you were wondering where all the bees had gone, look no further than Jessica Albarn’s remarkable exhibition Resurrection, which…
V&A Korean Collection: Chun Kwang Young: Aggregation10-SE032RED: 2010
Chun Kwang Young’s work mixes the traditional, through the use of customary Korean mulberry paper known as hanji paper, with…
Ophelia Among The Flowers by Redon
Odilon Redon’s Ophelia Among The Flowers is one of the many pastels that take Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet as their subject. But…
The Modern Eye, Edvard Munch exhibition at Tate Modern. By Will Stone
‘Without anxiety and sickness I would have been a rudderless ship…’ – E. Munch I At any given time of…
Art and Conflict – M-Museum in Leuven Presents Ravaged by Loma-Ann Marks
“The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes,” said French philosopher and writer Simone Weil, and…
Nyx and Oneiroi: The Depiction of Dreams in Renaissance Art by Erik Martiny
La Renaissance et le rêve, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 9 October 2013 – 26 January 2014 La Renaissance et…
Calcutta by Amit Chaudhuri
Calcutta: Two Years in the City, Amit Chaudhuri, Union Books, 2013, 320pp, £16.99, (Hardback) The modern megacity is characterised…
Coriolanus at the Donmar
Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, performed at the Donmar Warehouse, Directed by Josie Rourke, Wednesday 18th December 2013 Loyal to Shakespeare’s ‘noisiest…
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