Cathy Newman’s Bloody Brilliant Women
Cathy Newman is a Bloody Brilliant Woman and this is a Bloody Brilliant Book. No surprise there.
Books, films, exhibitions
Don’t miss this: Anni Albers at Tate Modern
Under the Director of Tate, Maria Balshaw and the Director of Tate Modern, Frances Morris, more prominence is being given to female artists. First Sonia Delaunay and now Anni Albers, both texti...
Creative women at work: Sofie Layton an artist who gets to The Heart of the Matter
It was heartening (excuse the pun) to meet Sofie Layton, an artist who is full of energy and enthusiasm. Collaborating with other artists and more recently medical professionals and patients, she li...
Hooray for the V&A
Regular visitors to the That’s Not My Age comments box will be familiar with the eloquent musings of Mrs Tonia. Antonia Cunliffe has had a portfolio career in the arts, including research...
Madonna: Like an Icon – at 60
The music industry has never been kind to the older woman, says Lucy O’Brien. Female artists are expected to disappear gracefully, but Madonna, as ever, continues to buck trends.
Books to read: There Are No Grown-Ups
I finally got round to reading Pamela Druckerman’s latest book There Are No Grown-Ups, on holiday. Well, on the return journey – a delayed flight helped.
Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up at the V&A
‘Everybody thinks they know Frida, but actually they don’t know her at all,’ Claire Wilcox senior curator at the V&A has said. My Frida knowledge is hazy, I’m not going t...
Azzedine Alaia exhibition at the Design Museum
Having been a Lycra-and-leather-clad fashion student in the 1980s, I’ve always had a fondness for Azzedine Alaia’s work. Oh those joyful black and white images of supermodels wearin...
Love this: Adrian Piper Berlin Dancing video
This video of Adrian Piper dancing in Alexanderplatz is just glorious. The 69-year-old artist and philosopher with a PhD from Harvard was born in New York and now lives in Berlin.
The psychology behind our fashion choices: five minutes with Professor Carolyn Mair
‘This is a good time to be an older woman or a woman of colour – I really like that things are finally changing, we are seeing more diversity in the media and I’d like to think it’s becaus...
Rachel Howard: the artist you need to know about
Why have I never heard of Rachel Howard? Is what I thought earlier this year when a gorgeous painting caught my eye as I walked past Blain Southern’s London gallery.
Something to look forward to: Laura Linney on stage in My Name is Lucy Barton
Our Christmas gift to each other was a smart TV – we’ve joined the 21st century, people. Many an evening is spent scrolling through Netflix on the settee – and we do actually watch s...
