Review | Charlotte Prodger and Forensic Architecture — The Turner Prize Exhibition at Tate Britain
In The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the Mechanical Age, Allucquére Roseanne Stone discusses how our…
Review | Krzysztof Gil: Welcome to the Country Where the Gypsy has been Hunted at l’étrangère
On view at l’étrangère gallery in East London is the first ever UK solo exhibition by the Polish Roma artist…
Review | Shitstorm by Fernando Sdrigotti
Shitstorm, Fernando Sdrigotti, Open Pen, 2018, £4.99 Among four equally alluring others, Open Pen’s new series of “novelettes” features Fernando…
Review | Now, Now, Louison by Jean Frémon
Now, Now, Louison, Jean Frémon (translated by Cole Swensen), Les Fugitives, 2018, pp.115, £12.00 Now, Now, Louison, originally published in French…
Review | Medusa at Sadler’s Wells Theatre
Briony Willis Medusa Through beautifully poetic movements and engaging drama, Jasmin Vardimon has created a unique choreographic voice that enables…
Review | Arkady by Patrick Langley
Patrick Langley’s Arkady is the story of two brothers, Jackson and Frank, who are drifting. They explore the city, a…
Review | Lee Bul: Crashing at the Hayward Gallery
Lee Bul does not make art that is designed to comfort you. Her latest collection at the Hayward Gallery on…
Review | Rainsongs, by Sue Hubbard
Sue Hubbard’s Rainsongs has a unique and beautiful emotive quality that shines through its delicately constructed prose in a love-letter to…
‘Each takes a turn, as one does, south of Market’
Selected Poems, Thom Gunn, Faber and Faber, July 2017, pp.336, £18.99 (hardcover) Proprietary, Randall Mann, Persea, July 2017, pp.80, £12.99…
Scottish music in 1983
This is Memorial Device, David Keenan, Faber and Faber, February 2017, pp.304, £14.99 (paperback) News of the death, back in…
Dancing Waves and Midnight Light
Anders Zorn: Sweden’s Master Painter, Petit Palais, Paris, 15 September 2017 to 17 December 2017 It’s been exactly 111 years…
The Visible Collection
The Leicester German Expressionist Collection, New Walk Museum and Art Gallery. When it comes to rare collections of modernist art,…
A Permanent Home
Garsington Opera at Wormsley, Summer 2017 George Frideric Handel, Semele Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro Gioachino Rossini, Il…
Extending the Range of Pejoratives: Howard Jacobson’s Pussy
Written in “a fury of disbelief” during the weeks that followed the unlikely election of Donald Trump, Howard Jacobson’s latest…
Shame, Error and Guilt
Proxies: A Memoir in Twenty-four Attempts, Brian Blanchfield, Picador, August 2017, pp. 256, £9.99 (Paperback) There are changing tides…
Quotidian Queerness
The great strength of this exhibition is its demonstration of the ubiquitous nature of queer art and culture. Timed to…
You Must Change Your Life – The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin by Rachael Corbett
You Must Change Your Life is an enthralling exploration of the complex relationship between two creative giants of art and…
Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
What do we think of when we think of myths? For children, myths are something unquestionable and magical. They present…
40 Sonnets by Don Paterson
Paterson is at his best when writing about heartbreak. “The Six,” this reviewer’s favourite piece in 40 Sonnets, speaks…
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