“Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos” wrote Pulitzer prize-winning author John Cheever. There’s no chaos quite like that of the art world […]
Exhibition of treasures from Birmingham Shakespeare Library
Did you know that Birmingham owns thousands of Shakespeare treasures, including a First Folio, dating back to 1623? This iconic book is the centrepiece of […]
Review | Feminine power at the British Museum
The British Museum is currently home to goddesses, demons, witches, spirits and saints. These divine and demonic figures, feared and revered for over 5,000 years, […]
Review | Mexican Geniuses: A Frida & Diego Immersive Experience
This week, ‘Mexican Geniuses: A Frida and Diego Immersive Experience’ opened at Dock X London in Canada Water. Having recently written a chapter on Frida […]
Review | Beauty and the Beast at Birmingham Hippodrome
Disney’s Beauty and the Beast has arrived at Birmingham Hippodrome! 26 years after it first debuted on Broadway, I was excited to see if this […]
Review | Britta Marakatt-Labba: embroidered survival stories at Ikon Gallery
Ikon Gallery’s dazzling Carlo Crivelli exhibition is receiving all the attention at the moment. It’s great to see this Renaissance master’s sumptuous, illusionistic paintings win […]
Book the Best: Inspirational Women Speakers
Introducing a curated list of the most diverse and inspirational women speakers… A couple of years ago I attended an event on International Women’s Day; […]
Review | Spider Woman: Louise Bourgeois at the Hayward Gallery
If you go down to London today, you’re sure of a big surprise: Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) the art world’s Spider Woman, has a spellbinding show […]
Review | British Art Show 9 in Wolverhampton
Hundreds of china cats are currently sat inside Wolverhampton Art Gallery. Cabinets are filled with rows of porcelain feline figurines, of all shapes and sizes, […]
Review | ‘Lucian Freud: Real Lives’ at Tate Liverpool
Lucian Freud was a master of modern portraiture, whose muses were friends, lovers, wives, children and fellow artists. In the show ‘Lucian Freud: Real Lives’, […]