Author: Frankie Dytor

Frankie researches attitudes towards the Renaissance at the turn of the twentieth century. They received their BA and MPhil in History of Art from Cambridge, and are currently studying towards a PhD there. Their thesis looks at the ways in which artworks from the Early Renaissance were used in a variety of literary and artistic experiments. They are particularly interested in the boundaries between people and artworks, and write on the trope of the living image in novels and travel writing. Their work aims to give voice to more performative ways of writing history; their favourites include the creative output of Michael Field and Isadora Duncan. Frankie can be contacted at francesca.dytor@gmail.com

Masculinities: Liberation through Photography at the Barbican

  Frankie Dytor

Frankie Dytor takes a close look at the image of the father in the Barbican Art Gallery’s extended run of their hit show, Masculinities: Liberation through Photography.

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Botticelli in the Fire at Hampstead Theatre

  Frankie Dytor

Jordan Tannahill’s latest play, Botticelli in the Fire, is a glorious queering of Florentine Renaissance, which reveals just as much about the present as it does the past.

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Into the Night: Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art, at the Barbican Art Gallery

  Frankie Dytor

Illustrious clubs and night spots in Mexico, Iran, Nigeria and numerous European cities are celebrated – and recreated – in the Barbican’s latest exhibition, Into the Night: Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art.

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Isadora by Julie Birmant and Clément Ouberie – an engrossing, beautifully illustrated graphic novel

  Frankie Dytor

The American-French dancer, Isadora Duncan, has been described as an ‘oversaturated subject’, but a new graphic novel shows her life and contribution to dance in a new light, writes Francesca Dytor.

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