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What’s in Your Handbag? Bags: Inside Out at the V&A

9th December 2021  Julia Bagguley

From a renaissance falconer’s bag to Haute Couture purses, the V&A’s current show, Bags: Inside Out, explores the history of this much needed and, at times, coveted accessory, writes Julia Bagguley.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Fashion, GeneralTagged: Bags: Inside Out, Birkin Bag, Coco Chanel, Fashion, handbags, Haute Couture, Julia Bagguley, Karl Lagerfeld, Mulberry, V&A

Postcards in Isolation 19: Sylvia Fein, The Painting Told Me What to Do, 2012

7th August 20208th August 2020  Molly Gilroy

On a trip to Berkeley, California, Molly Gilroy discovered Sylvia Fein’s hypnotic and blazing work, The Painting Told Me What to Do, 2012, an image, which in postcard form, has given her hope during lockdown.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, GeneralTagged: art, BAMPFA, Berkley, Covid-19, Leonora Carrington, Lockdown Living, Molly Gilroy, Postcards in Isolation, Remedios Varo, Rochelle Roberts, San Francisco, Surrealism, Surrealists, Sylvia Fein, Women surrealists

Lucy Writers Flash Fiction Competition Winner Announcement

28th May 201928th May 2019  Lucy Writers

Lucy Writers announces the winner of its first ever Flash Fiction Competition in collaboration with Retreat West and Byte The Book, and with sponsorship by My Ly.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Flash Fiction, GeneralTagged: Amanda Saint, Byte The Book, Competition, Creative Writing, Flash Fiction, Justine Solomons, Lucy Cavendish College, My Ly, Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone, Retreat West
Feature image is of a British concentration camp for Boer women and children during the Boer war.

You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr – a powerful, poignant, must-read book

22nd April 201922nd April 2019  Ishita Ranjan

Damian Barr’s moving debut novel, You Will Be Safe Here, follows the stories of two people who lived over one hundred years apart, but whose lives are inexplicably connected through the colonial horrors of the past.

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Posted in Arts, Books, GeneralTagged: Bloomsbury Fiction, Boer War, Britain and Colonialism, Damian Barr, Fiction, Novel, Partition, You Will Be Safe Here

Daria Martin: Tonight the World at The Curve, Barbican Centre

7th February 20198th February 2019  Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

In Tonight the World, Daria Martin brings her grandmother’s dream diaries to life through exquisite 16mm films, thus shining a light on past trauma.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Film and Media, GeneralTagged: Barbican, Barbican Centre, Daria Martin, dreams, Film, Freud, Jarman Award, Jungian Analysis, Susi Stiassni, The Curve, videogames

Review of Ballet Black’s Double Bill at the York Theatre Royal

23rd December 201810th January 2019  Kitty Wenham

Opinion editor and arts contributor, Kitty Wenham, celebrates Ballet Black’s innovative and modern approach to classical dance in their latest double bill at the York Theatre Royal.

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Posted in Arts, Dance, GeneralTagged: A Dream Within a Midsummer Night's Dream, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Arthur Pita, Ballet Black, Can Themba, Cassa Pancho, Cathy Marston, Diversity, Inclusion, Kronos Quartet, Shakespeare, York Theatre Royal
  • Magic by Moonlight: Kirsten Glass’ Night-Scented Stock at Karsten Schubert, London
    By Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou
  • Picturing Loss: On Francesca Woodman by Lisa Goodrum
    By Lisa Goodrum
  • Beyond the Confines of Nell Brookfield’s Canvas
    By Rachel Ashenden
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