Claire Brewster’s artwork is influenced by the British countryside and nature, ‘ I’m endlessly fascinated by nature,’ says the 50-and-a-half-year-old, ‘where we humans ne...
Oh, the ups and downs of the internet. Unfortunately, due to a minor technical glitch That’s Not My Age was offline over the weekend.
One is an unfinished manuscript discovered after the author’s death, the other a best-selling blockbuster from a former First Lady but both memoirs make great last-minute Christmas gifts for sty...
Cathy Newman is a Bloody Brilliant Woman and this is a Bloody Brilliant Book. No surprise there.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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.
‘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...
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...
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.
