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Review: 'A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography' – A Lacklustre Mix Of Greatest Hits
★★★☆☆ Mario Macilau, Breaking News from The Profit Corner series, 2015. Archival pigment print on cotton rag paper. © Mário Macilau,...
Ernest Chlopicki
Jul 8, 20234 min read


'Shabu' Review: A Feel-Good Portrait Of Childhood
With vibrance and energy, Shabu and its equally vivacious subject have a lot to say about life and growing up, delivered through the most...
Oisín McGilloway
Jul 7, 20233 min read


Surrealism In The Sun: 'The Swimmer' At BFI Film On Film Festival
Screened for likely the last time on its original Technicolour dye-transfer print, watching Frank Perry’s 1968 film The Swimmer on the...
Oisín McGilloway
Jul 3, 20234 min read


75 Years After Windrush: A Love Letter to the Sounds of Black Britain
Photo by Friedrich Magnussen via Wikimedia Commons (licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 DE) On June 22 1948, HMT Empire Windrush arrived in the...
Akane Hayashi
Jul 3, 20236 min read


Review: 'Capturing the Moment' at Tate Modern
★★★★☆ Cecily Brown, Trouble in Paradise, 1999. © Cecily Brown. Image © Tate. The Tate galleries love putting sentences on the walls....
Samuel Blackburn
Jul 1, 20233 min read


'Life Is More Important Than Art' review: Whitechapel’s summer of soulfulness
★★★★☆ Image by Ernest Chlopicki In a world that is hyper-saturated with images, those that should matter have, in fact, a diminishing...
Ernest Chlopicki
Jul 1, 20234 min read


'Richard III' by King's Shakespeare Company: Review
I had the chance to see both nights of King’s Shakespeare Company’s Richard III, and it was awesome. I don’t possess any knowledge about...
Parvy Kang
Jun 29, 20235 min read


Through the Looking Glass: The Reflection of Women in a Pornographic World
Photo by Rob Corder via Flickr (licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) "I think we're about to have the biggest show of the summer"...
Ellie Dempster
Jun 28, 20235 min read


Carrie Mae Weems - Reflections for Now: Taking the Retrospective Into the Future
★★★★★ Carrie Mae Weems If I Ruled the World, 2004 © Carrie Mae Weems. Courtesy of the artist, Jack Shainman Gallery, NewYork / Galerie...
Isabel Imhorst
Jun 22, 20234 min read


Tate Britain Rehang 2023: Three Perspectives On The Newest History Of British Art
William Blake, Newton,1795-c.1805. Colour print, ink and watercolour on paper; Support: 460 × 600 mm. Photo: Tate Much of the criticism...
The Strand Magazine
Jun 22, 20234 min read
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