by Madeline Brace Content Warning: This article, the art and plays it concerns and the articles linked below feature potentially distressing subject matter including suicide, mental illness, forced marriage and […]
Category: Culture
Bizarre Desires Behind the Glass: The Contemporary Come-back of Wunderkammers
Written by Fruzsina Vida From 16th century cabinets of curiosities to a riveting app to fight off the pandemic monotony, private collections of wonders have found their audience through centuries […]
The Impact on Art of Pandemics Past: A Visual Guide
By Madeline Brace Content Warning: This article, the art it concerns and the articles linked below, feature potentially distressing subject matter including pandemics, terminal illness and bereavement. It has become […]
The Importance of LGBT+ Representation in TV and Film
By Jared White The Importance of LGBT+ Representation in TV and Film. I recently finished watching It’s A Sin, Channel 4’s new five-episode series that tells the story of a […]
Everything Wrong With the ‘Everything Wrong With’ Genre
With the increasing popularity of video essay YouTube channels, people are becoming more critical about what they’re watching. There’s nothing wrong with that in itself. Most of the time these […]
The Pre-Raphaelites: Sir John Everett Millais and Ophelia
By Agata Lunarska John Everett Millais was born in 1829 in Southampton. He showed extraordinary talent in painting and drawing and at the age of 11 he started attending the […]
In Review: Staged (Series 1 & 2)
By Sophie Eblett Staged, the inaugural lockdown sitcom, has accomplished the unimaginable and wrung humour from domestic confinement. In the first lockdown, during which the nation was effectively housebound with […]
Artemisia in The National Gallery, London
by Mia Gane Positioned just off centre, staring towards her audience and regally dressed in the guise of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, a 4th century martyr, Artemisia Gentileschi paints, and […]
Eton Mess
Written by Joseph Waterfield 2019 was an eventful year, with protests in Hong Kong, a general election in the UK, and Brexit talks being a staple of news broadcasts. However, […]
Has the idea of a ‘Hero’ in politics gone the way of the Silent Film?
A film taking up a lot of headlines at the moment is the Oscar nominated film ‘Vice’; broadly speaking, it’s a biopic of the notorious former Vice-President Dick Cheney, and […]