top of page
strand


The Artist Presents… Marina Abramović at the Royal Academy
Marina Abramovic, The Current, 2017. Video; 1 hour 35 mins. Courtesy of the Marina Abramovic Archives. © Marina Abramovic. For the...
K A Thickett
Oct 12, 20236 min read


'The Missing Thread' at Somerset House Review: the Untold Stories of Black British Fashion
★★★★★ Robi Walters, Banana Boat. Image provided by Somerset House Press Office. I was completely blown away by the scope of this...
Hebe Hancock
Oct 12, 20233 min read


“Treasures of Europe” at the V&A: Three Centuries of Decorative Arts in One Hour
Ramadan Pavilion 2023, courtesy of the V&A Press Office. The Victoria & Albert Museum in South Kensington houses one of the largest...
Anna Mowery
Oct 12, 20233 min read


Public Image Ltd's "End Of World": Sound and Anger Mature Without Mellowing
Photo by Spartacos via Wikimedia Commons (licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0) “Anger is an energy,” John Lydon yells throughout ‘Rise’, a song...
Akane Hayashi
Oct 12, 20235 min read


London Literature Festival at the Southbank Centre
Photo by Tom Hermans (licensed under Unsplash Licence) From the 18th to the 29th of October 2023, the London Literature Festival returns...
Isabelle Ragnetti
Oct 11, 20234 min read


DIVA at the V&A: An Experience of Worshipping the Feminine
The V&A’s DIVA exhibition is an enlightened exploration of the journey this term has taken throughout the last two hundred years, from...
Charley Dennis
Oct 11, 20234 min read


(Un)knowing Londoners
Image by Ilya Grigorik (licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) I lay awake last night listening to the incessant thumping and bed-squeaking of...
Victoria Taylor
Oct 11, 20234 min read


Judging Sylvia By Her Cover
It was a Wednesday afternoon. My eyes had grown tired of Matisse’s representations of fertility in ‘la blouse romaine.’ Nor was I...
Cecilia Gerber
Oct 11, 20238 min read


Fat Dog at Scala: A Cultish Rock n’ Roll Fever Dream
Photo by Amy Russell With new songs adding to an already established set list and their biggest headline yet, the sky's the limit for the...
Amy Russell
Oct 10, 20232 min read


Where Did All the Groupies Go? The Rise and Fall of the Good-Time Girls of Rock
Robert Plant was known for wearing the blouses of the groupie he had slept with the night before onstage during Led Zeppelin’s 70s tours....
Sadie King
Oct 10, 20235 min read
bottom of page