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Category: Arts Essays

Women of the Night, Chapter 3: Vrăjitoare, Romania’s Witch Business

25th November 202026th November 2020  Toni Roberts

In the third chapter of her mini-series, Toni Roberts discovers that witchcraft is alive and well in Romania. Looking at Lucia Sekerková Bláhová’s photography series, Vrăjitoare, the modern, technologically savvy face of magic and witchery is revealed.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Arts EssaysTagged: Lucia Sekerková Bláhová, Magic, Night / Shift, Romania, Toni Roberts, Vrăjitoare, witchcraft, witches, Women of the Night

Ophelia Redux

10th November 202010th November 2020  Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

Millais’ painting, Ophelia, continues to inspire viewers and critics alike, but what if the heroine came back from the watery grave she was condemned to? Here, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou considers the return of Ophelia in the artwork of Jada Bruney and Rolake Osabia, and the music visuals of Christine and the Queens.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Arts Essays, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Chris, Christine and the Queens, Griselda Pollock, Jada Bruney, Jaqueline Rose, John Everett Millais, Millais, music video, Nathaniel Telemaque, Ophelia, painting, Photography, Pre-Raphaelites, Pre-Raphealitism, Rolake Osabia, Tate, Tate Britain, Tate Collective, The Ophelia Letters

Women of the Night, Chapter 2: Nocturnal Mothering

23rd September 202025th November 2020  Toni Roberts

Looking at the work of photographer Ana Casas Broda, poet Muriel Rukeyser and musician Sherri Dupree-Bemis, Toni Roberts considers night from the perspectives of mothers, reflecting on their nocturnal experiences and reveries.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Arts EssaysTagged: Ana Casas Broda, Breast feeding, Eisley, Kinderwunsch, Louder than a Lion, maternity, milk, Motherhood, mothers, Muriel Rukeyser, music, Night, Night / Shift, Photography, Poetry, Sherri DuPree-Bemis, Toni Roberts, Women of the Night

There is no mutual fascination: why the British Museum’s ‘Inspired by the East’ is not inspired (at least, not to me, a heartbroken Muslim Middle Easterner)

7th February 20207th February 2020  Sumaya Kassim

Sumaya Kassim writes about the ingrained orientalist attitudes and tropes which reinforce exhibitions like the British Museum’s Inspired by the East, often at the expense of the experiences, creativity and cultural history of Middle Eastern Muslims.

Read More “There is no mutual fascination: why the British Museum’s ‘Inspired by the East’ is not inspired (at least, not to me, a heartbroken Muslim Middle Easterner)”
Posted in Art and design, Arts, Arts EssaysTagged: Ahdaf Soueif, British Museum, colonialism, Edward Said, Hafsah Aneela Bashir, imperialism, Inci Eviner, Inspired by the East, Islam, Kaveh Akbar, Lalla Essaydi, Orientalism, Osman Hamdi Bey, Raeda Saadeh, Yasmin Younis

Migrating Memories and Transitive Memorials: Tara Fatehi Irani’s Mishandled Archive and Our Collective Handling of the Past

7th April 20198th April 2019  Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

Memory, loss and migration are all explored in Tara Fatehi Irani’s beautifully evocative work, Mishandled Archive. Here, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou reflects on Fatehi Irani’s ongoing project and her “mishandling” of ancestral archives.

Read More “Migrating Memories and Transitive Memorials: Tara Fatehi Irani’s Mishandled Archive and Our Collective Handling of the Past”
Posted in Art and design, Arts, Arts Essays, TheatreTagged: Contemporary Art, Dance, Iran, Mishandled Archive, Performance, Photography, Site-Specific Art, Tara Fatehi Irani

The New Woman in Early Twentieth-Century New Drama: Staging a Sexual, Political and Social Revolution

3rd March 20197th March 2019  Judith Roberts

Our arts contributor Judith Roberts explores the phenomenon of the New Woman in the work of several women playwrights from the early twentieth century.

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Posted in Arts, Arts Essays, TheatreTagged: Cecily Hamilton, Diana of Dobson's, Elizabeth Robins, Githa Sowerby, Harley Granville Barker, Hindle Wakes, Lillah McCarthy, New Woman, St John Hankin, The Last of the De Mullins, Theatre, Twentieth-Century Drama, Women's Suffrage

Reflections on ‘Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired By Her Writings’ at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

11th December 20185th January 2019  Olivia Scott-Berry

Olivia Scott Berry questions curatorial decisions and a lack of intersectionality in the recent exhibition inspired by Virginia Woolf’s writings. In the words of poet Rebecca Wilcox, Berry asks ‘what about the transformational potential of discourse?’ when returning to the oeuvre of Woolf.

Read More “Reflections on ‘Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired By Her Writings’ at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge”
Posted in Art and design, Arts, Arts Essays, BooksTagged: Fitzwilliam Museum, Laura Knight, Laura Smith, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, Winifred Nicholson
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    By Johanna Robinson
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