25 books to get you through quarantine and beyond
While I’ve probably spent more time studying other people’s bookshelves on the news recently than actually reading, looking away from a screen is rewarding. Which is why I’m surprise...
While I’ve probably spent more time studying other people’s bookshelves on the news recently than actually reading, looking away from a screen is rewarding. Which is why I’m surprise...
Museum and art gallery doors may be closed, but there are plenty of online resources for Armchair Gallery-Going. And as the curator of 16th century art at The National Gallery, Dr Matthias Wive...
For the last six weeks Thursday evenings have been sacrosanct. I’ve been glued to the TV watching, Secrets of the Museum – the revelatory documentary series on BBC2 about what goes on behind-t...
Audrey Withers was not just any editor, she was the courageous woman who braved the Blitz to mastermind British Vogue (known affectionately as brogue by the Condé Nast founders) throughout the turb...
Tilda Swinton looks like she’s stepped straight out of a Tim Walker photograph, in Armando Iannucci’s The Personal History of David Copperfield. With her trademark quirk turned up as much ...
According to the Financial Times, ‘ 2020 promises a revolution for women in art.’ Hooray.
Who hasn’t been a Laura Dern fan since David Lynch’s 1986 film Blue Velvet? The award-winning actor added another Golden Globe to her collection this week, taking the tally up to five.
Kiki Smith is a New York-based artist whose oeuvre moves from photographs, to drawings, to printmaking to small sculptures and most impressively since 2012 to large scale tapestries. If you want to se...
The largest retrospective of Bridget Riley’s paintings comes to London this autumn, fresh from National Galleries Scotland. Riley is now 88-years-old and this is seven decades of work by one of ...
In Darcey Steinke’s Flash Count Diary one woman compares her hot flashes (that’s flushes to us menopausal Brits) to being like a seventies superhero, ‘ I feel like I’m going to...
Diversity in fashion is a conversation that I’ve been involved in for many years. As a part-time senior lecturer in Fashion Journalism, I contributed to several research projects at university ̵...
Here’s a true story with a happy outcome. The artist, activist and children’s author Faith Ringgold is having a solo retrospective at the Serpentine Gallery, her first in Europe.