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Photo of a ceiling in Hasht Behesht, Isfahan, Iran by Diego Delso (via WikiCommons) When a certain Twitter-savvy president took to the...

Image via Wikimedia Commons. As our lives begin to plough into 2020, we begin to ponder how we would like this year to unfold......

Edward Hopper, Automat (1927) I sit in the upper corner of the lecture theatre, the exact same place every time. Left edge, close to the...

The representation of minorities in mainstream media, or rather lack thereof, has been an issue for years. It’s only in the past decade...

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Mummified hand from the Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon When I visited the Pompeii exhibition during its...

“Maybe sorry is the closest I ever got to expressing love.” Jenny Hval, via Tom Øverlie (Flickr) Ruminations on love; the ecosystem of a...

You can find the original version of this article on the Funzel Iain Sinclair, one could say, is obsessed with London. The Last London,...

Didn’t you hear it? The planet’s ominous cry? A summer raided by record fires, heat waves and floods. Didn’t you sense a certain anxiety?...

From an article on ‘Gaiety George’, successful shows that ran at the Strand’s Gaiety theatre during the 1890s and 1900s and its female...

“Art for Art’s sake”, insisted the French poet Théophile Gautier in the early 19th century. This is an attractive notion, but is it that...