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Review: Estorick Collection Uncut

GEORGE DENNIS visits Estorick Collection Uncut, considering the presentation of abstract, politically charged modern Italian art.  To saunter through galleries on a rainy day is..

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Interview: Sister

MATILDA SYKES had a chat with sibling duo, Sister. Born and raised in London, the band Sister consists of siblings Sadie and Sonny. Sonny (aka Sonny..

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In America: A Lexicon of Fashion

GEORGIA GOOD reviews In America: A Lexicon of Fashion at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.  In America: A Lexicon of Fashion, opened by the Met..

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Non-native writing, as told by Apeirogon

ARIANA RAZAVI reflects on Colum McCann’s novel Apeirogon, in light of her own experiences of the Middle East.  I stumbled across Apeirogon (2020) by chance. It..

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Interview: Liam Mertens

WILL FERREIRA DYKE speaks with Slade alum LIAM MERTENS about his recent group exhibitions, personal artistic practice and life as an artist post art school, Mertens..

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No More

A poem by FRANCESCA KURLANSKY.    One morning You looked at the space in between, Reading in the silence The words I was forced not..

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Review: Tender Napalm

BEN FRITH reviews the tenth anniversary revival of Tender Napalm at the King’s Head Theatre.   ‘Woman’ and ‘Man’ dance with each other, sometimes apart,..
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Interview: Ellis Parkinson

RUBY ANDERSON talks to recent Slade Graduate ELLIS PARKINSON about his interdisciplinary conceptual art practice that approaches topics such as hereditary power with a satirical..
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Interview: Gavin Turk

LAURIE MILTON-JEFFERIES and RUBY ANDERSON chat to British artist GAVIN TURK about Piscio d’Artista, a project in which Turk sells cans of his own urine..
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Interview: Paula Turmina

WILL FERREIRA DYKE chats to MA Slade Graduate PAULA TURMINA about her installation at the Slade Graduate show 2021. Her final piece, which confronts themes of..
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Review: Paradise

ALEX DARBY reviews Kae Tempest’s Paradise (2021) at the National Theatre.   Kae Tempest’s Paradise boldly reworks Sophocles’s Philoctetes (409 BC) bringing it into the..
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Pravda, reality and personal mythology: Memoirs of an Anti-Semite

 ROSA APPIGNANESI ponders the notions of mythologisation and truth, and how these relate to antisemitism, through the lens of Von Rezzori’s Memoirs of an Anti-Semite...
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Surrender

A prose piece by HUGO MCCULLAGH. He lay on his bed, and as the mattress slowly absorbed his head, he allowed the song’s melody to..
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Review: Vanara: The Legend

ZOSIA KIBAŁO reviews Vanara: The Legend at the Hackney Empire, exploring its message of unity and togetherness. Forest sounds echoed from the stage as I..
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Interview: Mr. Jwm

MATILDA SYKES catches up with MR. JWM about his process of DIY music production.   Mr. Jwm is a London born and raised producer and..
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A Word Obscene

Miles Singer explores the etymology of the word ‘jazz’ and the self-determination of Black music.  Throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, white music executives and..
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Review: Lady Chatterley’s Lover

ISABELLE OSBORNE reviews the musical adaptation of Lady Chatterley’s Lover at Soho Screening Rooms. Following it’s run at the Shaftesbury Theatre earlier this year, the..
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Review: Charlotte Perriand at the Design Museum

MICH ROSSITER reviews Charlotte Perriand: The Modern Life at The Design Museum.   Charlotte Perriand: The Modern Life is an expansive and overdue celebration of..
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Hyper-aware

A poem by MANASVINI MONI.   ‘A speck in the universe’ ‘A particle of dust’                    ..
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Review: No Comply at Somerset House

MARISA BECIROVIC reviews No Comply at Somerset House, as skateboarding pushes into the spotlight.   Weave your way past Yinka Ilori’s lime coloured mesh booths and the dodgems..
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