ARTS / CULTURES

Artist Corinne Silva on Israeli Settlement Gardens in Palestine – Interview

Introducing Jelena Sofronijevic, SGSAH’s New Resident Blogger

Heather Agyepong at New Art Exchange Nottingham – Interview

The First Bukhara Biennial Reveals That the Most Expensive Ingredient Is Time – Review

Singing with Birds: Artists Reimagine Human–Avian Kinship – Reviews

From the Garden: Exhibitions Across the UK and Ireland – Reviews

Bernat Klein’s Studio Saved at Auction

Hazel O’Sullivan’s Droichead na Sídhe at Focal Point Gallery – Interview

How does a tree fit inside a seed? – SEEDLINGS: Diasporic Imaginaries Exhibition Essay

Shades of Clay: Alice Rekab in Dublin, Liverpool, and Edinburgh – Reviews

Ioana Leca, Artistic Director of the Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (GIBCA), in conversation with Jelena Sofronijevic – Interview

The cinematic mindset of Ali Cherri – Reviews

Tethered Forms and Soft Landscapes: Reframing the Erotic in Abstract Sculpture – Reviews

CAS Annual Conference: On Radicalism (1 May 2025) – Report

Net Works: Claudia Alarcón & Silät at the De La Warr Pavilion – Review

Men at Sea: Yannis Maniatakos and Zeljko Kujundzic – Reviews

Spotlight: Miloš Trakilović on conflict and soundscape – Interview

Weaving beyond borders: Tadek Beutlich’s On and Off the Loom at the Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft – Review

Aubrey Williams: Art, Histories, Futures, Ian Dudley and Maridowa Williams (2024) – Book Review

Dreams and Revelations: Portia Zvavahera’s ‘Zvakazarurwa’- Review

War Rugs: Afghanistan’s Knotted Histories of Conflict, Resistance & Desires – Review

Translations of Abstraction: Felipe Mujica at Beam, Nottingham – Review

Jakkai Siributr on stitching place and time at the Whitworth – Interview

Letter from Timișoara – Report for Art Monthly

The Camera Obscured: Photography, Film, and Moving Image at the V&A in London – Reviews

Claudia Martínez Garay at Nottingham Contemporary, Dundee Contemporary Arts, and Frieze 2024 – Interview

Art History and the United Arab Emirates – Book Review

Learning Curves: Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum at the Barbican – Review

An artist going places: Alia Farid at Oslo’s Henie Onstad Kunstsenter – Review

Artists & Animals: Adham Faramawy, Tarlan Lotfizadeh, Ouma & Mohammad Shaqdih – Review

Afropean: Johny Pitts on homes, history, and photography

Push and Pull Factors: Exhibitions about Migrations in Marylebone – Reviews

No Man is an Island: Mohammad Barrangi at b-side Festival 2024 and beyond – Reviews

Jelena Sofronijevic revisits Carrie Mae Weems: ‘Reflections for Now’ at the Barbican – Review

Not Only, But Also: Permindar Kaur’s Ambiguous Sculptures at John Hansard Gallery

Turner Prize nominee Jasleen Kaur on abstracting and alternating contexts – Interview

We Are Eagles: Outi Pieski and Maree Clarke at Tate Modern – Review

Soulscapes at Dulwich Picture Gallery: diasporic & emotional connections to landscape – Review

Deities and Idols: Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran at Tramway – Review

Edinburgh’s Environmental Exhibitions Part Two: The Local – Reviews

Edinburgh’s Environmental Exhibitions Part One: The Global – Reviews

The world in miniature: Maha Ahmed’s delicate flow between cultures – Review

Artist Spotlight: Maria Prymachenko – Review

Monica Sjöö: The Great Cosmic Mother at Modern Art Oxford – Review

Elbow Room – Burlington Contemporary Editor Recommends EMPIRE LINES

David Hockney: Paper, the Popular, and Populism in Art – Reviews

Alternative Spaces: Li Yuan-chia & Friends at Kettle’s Yard – Review

Conversations in the Basque Country and Beyond at Bilbao Fine Arts Museum – Reviews

Infinite Viewpoints: Gego at the Guggenheim Bilbao – Review

You will follow the Rhein and compose play: Temitayo Ogunbiyi at Museum Tinguely – Review

IN CASE OF EMERGENCY: Koestler Arts 2023 at Southbank Centre – Review

Small and Mighty: South Asian Miniature Painting and Britain, 1600 to Now at MK Gallery – Review

‘Not to be exhibited but experienced’: Hélio Oiticica at the De La Warr Pavilion – Review

Intangible Englishness: Eric Ravilious in Sussex – Reviews

Long Read: Lisetta Carmi’s career-spanning interest in identities – Review

Last chance to see: Evelyn Hofer at The Photographers’ Gallery – Review

Reclaiming Visual Culture: BLACK VENUS at Somerset House – Review

Edinburgh Art Festival’s reckoning with the city’s colonial legacies – Reviews

Dovecot Studios’ history of women artists in Scotland – Review

Crivelli’s Garden: Paula Rego storms The National Gallery – Review

Praxitella: Wyndham Lewis, Iris Barry, Helen Saunders at Leeds Art Gallery – Reviews

Postwar Modernism: Egon Altdorf at The Henry Moore Institute – Review

‘Like people, each one is different’: Sculpture and ceramics exhibitions showing now – Reviews

‘Word-Play’ Review: Are Some Things Better Left Unsaid?

Where Modernism meets Anti-Colonialism – gowithYamo Newsletter

Modernism meets anti-colonialism at Christie’s Kawkaba – Review

Showing Now: Saatchi Gallery and White Cube’s Dark Landscapes – Reviews

The Royal Academy’s Young Artists’ Summer Show – Review

How ‘local’ should galleries be? – gowithYamo Newsletter

Creating and Curating Conversations in Oxford’s Communities – Reviews

Boundary Encounters: Modern Art Oxford’s Architecture of the Present – Review

WAVE: Currents in Japanese Graphic Arts at Japan House London – Review

Theatre Review: Anarchy comes to Britain – Accidental Death of an Anarchist at Theatre Royal Haymarket

Growing mindsets on Jean Cooke 🌲and Textiles in Cambridge – gowithYamo Newsletter

Textiles in Cambridge: Mediterranean Embroidery at Fitzwilliam Museum – Review

Textiles in Cambridge: Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery at Kettle’s Yard – Review

Growing Mindsets on Jean Cooke at the Garden Museum

EMPIRE LINES Pod of the Week – Pod Bible Newsletter #174

6 of the best podcasts about art and artists

Leighton House rediscovered: Evelyn De Morgan, Shahrzad Ghaffari & Nour Hage – Review

‘School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play’: Review

Writers & Company Review in PodPod Earworms: What the industry’s been listening to this week

A Clear Comfort: Food and Queer performance art at Van Gogh House London – Review

Dedication at Marylebone Theatre – Review

Colour and Abstraction: Beatriz Milhazes at Margate’s Turner Contemporary – Review

Finding hope within Hurvin Anderson’s barbershops – Review

Does food have any place in an art gallery? – Hilma af Klint & Piet Mondrian at Tate Eats Review (Online and Print)

A Perfect Match?: Chaïm Soutine meets Leon Kossoff – Review

Heaven and Earth: Yun Hyong-keun at Hastings Gallery – Review

Bloomsbury Stud: Stephen Tomlin at Philip Mould & Company – Review

The exhibition re-framing Van Gogh’s last days – Review (Online and Print)

Kaye Donachie’s ‘Nuanced Personal Choreography – Interview

Letters from Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris at Pallant House – Review

Tokyo Stories and Beyond at The Ashmolean – Reviews

Asian art in Oxford and Gwen John in Chichester – gowithYamo Newsletter

Berthe Morisot: The Eighteenth Century Modernised? – Review

After Impressionism at the National Gallery Review in Tortoise Weekend Sensemaker: Hirsutes you, sir

After Impressionism at the National Gallery – Review

The Rossettis Reframed at Tate Britain – Review

‘Wodzirej’ Review: A Glance Into Communist Poland – Review

Democratising Fashion? – Ashish: Fall in Love and Be More Tender – Review

Betty Woodman & George Woodman: domestic ceramic from Italy to Charleston – Review

‘Bad Women of China’ Review: Can Acupuncture Cure A Rightist?

The wait is over: Japan Reviews – gowithYamo Newsletter

Japan’s environments: Natural, local, global, imperial – Japan Reviews (3/3)

The women of Ukiyo-e – Japan Reviews (2/3)

‘Official’ Japan: A guide to Japanese national museums – Japan Reviews (1/3)

David Bowie’s Aladdin Sane at 50 ⚡️- gowithYamo Newsletter

Aladdin Sane at 50 – Review

The best design exhibitions showing now in London – gowithYamo Newsletter

Making Sense: Ai Weiwei at The Design Museum – Review

A Bruising Insight into Alcoholism: ‘The Dry House’ Review

Oskar Kokoschka: Europe’s Most Successful Self-Portrait Artist? – Review

The Story of Japanese Food Told Through Four Arts

City and Sculpture – Reviews

Visit Japan for free – from London – Reviews

Rebecca Fortnum spotlights the overlooked women of sculpture in Les Praticiennes – Review

Gulags, Safe Spaces and Spycams: VAULT Festival Roundup – Reviews

My Brother’s Keeper Review in Tortoise Creative Sensemaker: Cocaine Bear

A Triptych of Danish Modernism: Cobra and Degenerate Art in Denmark – Reviews

The Van Gogh Family – Review

Asian Art in the Netherlands – Reviews

‘Court painter of the underground’: Alice Neel at Barbican – Review

The Master of Still-Life: Giorgio Morandi at The Estorick Collection – Review

‘Film for Freedom’ Review: Refugee Women Take Control of their Narratives

Hold Me Back Review in Tortoise Creative Sensemaker: The himbo’s last dance

A Fascinating Production About Hiroshima: The Mistake Review

Feeling Her Way: Sonia Boyce’s ‘noisy exhibition’ – Review

Bulgaria on Film at the Barbican: A Conversation with January’s Alex Barrett and Teodosia Dobriyanova

gowithYamo’s Paris Week 🇫🇷 – Newsletter

The Big Three: A Weekend in Paris – Reviews

Picasso in Paris – Reviews

‘Foreign’ in France: Curating Migration and Art – Reviews

The revolutionary act of walking in the city – Women’s Journeys in the City and Beyond at the Royal Academy Review

Bare And Intimate: ‘New Plays: Japan’ Review

Barbara Chase-Riboud: Infinite Folds at Serpentine North Gallery – Review

Kamala Ibrahim Ishag at The Serpentine: Exhibition Review

Accessibility at London Art Fair 2023 – gowithYamo Newsletter

London Art Fair 2023: A More Accessible Art World? – Review

The thematic links between M.K. Čiurlionis and Magdalena Abakanowicz – gowithYamo Newsletter

Worlds Together, Poles Apart (Part Two): Magdalena Abakanowicz at Tate Modern – Review

Worlds Together, Poles Apart (Part One): M.K. Čiurlionis at Dulwich Picture Gallery – Review

High Tide: Luke Jerram’s Museum of the Moon at The Old Royal Naval College – Review

A Tongue-in-Cheek Take on The One Thousand and One Nights: ‘Hakawatis’ Review

Review: ‘Mandela: The Musical’

A father, A daughter, A gulf: ‘Baghdaddy’ Review

Finding Freud in London: Five Lucian Freud exhibitions showing now – Reviews

Uneasy And Conflicting Identities- ‘12.37’ Review

Podcasts, Persia, and Murder – ‘Things Hidden Since The Foundation Of The World’ Review

Three Minutes: A Lengthening – From Holocaust to Home History – Review

Making Modernism at the Royal Academy – Review

Hong Kong: City on Fire – Interview with Producer Sinead Kirwan

Performing Post-Yugoslavia in the UK – A Conversation with Natasha Stanić Mann and Jaka Škapin

A Real Horror Show: The Creepy and Uncanny in the Capital – Exhibition Reviews

Surrealism meets Design in The Design Museum’s Objects of Desire – Review

Wuthering Frights – The Moors at Hope Theatre London – Review

Iphigenia in Splott at the Lyric Hammersmith – Review

Nalini Malani: My Reality is Different – Review

Conversations on the Thames: Curation Around the River – Exhibition Reviews

Frieze 2022 Retrospective – Review

‘Godland’: Denmark and Iceland Share a Dark Pilgrimage – Review

Glimpses: We Are What We See – Review

Poles Apart: Dmitry at Marylebone Theatre – Review

Jews. In Their Own Words Review in Tortoise Creative Sensemaker: Escape to Reality

Young and Wild: Art in 1980s Germany – Review

Marina Abramović: Gates and Portals – Review

Uncomfortable Truths: The Apology at Arcola Theatre London – Review

A Taste for Impressionism at the Scottish National Gallery – Review

Tracey Emin: I Lay Here For You – Review

The Singh Twins: Slaves of Fashion at Firstsite, Colchester – Review

Climes Against Humanity: The Trials at Donmar Warehouse – Review

Edinburgh Fringe Festivals Reviews in Tortoise Creative Sensemaker: The Taste of Success

Aping the Ape – Franz Kafka’s Report to an Academy at London’s Old Red Lion Theatre – Review

The Good Boss Review in Tortoise Creative Sensemaker: The Price of Perfection

Race Relations: The Fellowship at Hampstead Theatre London – Review

A Skin-Deep Look on the South Asian Women of Southall – Lotus Beauty Review

The Real Jerusalem – two Palestinians go dogging at the Royal Court – Review

The Windows of Your Mind – Reflections of Women at Dulwich Picture Gallery – Review

Eating Myself: A Woman Stews over Food, Family, and South America – Review

Island Mentalities: The Women Bridging Britain and Japan at Tsunagu/Connect – Review

A Century of the Artist’s Studio Review in Tortoise Creative Sensemaker: Follow the Funny

‘Highly Controlled Chaos’ – A Century of the Artist’s Studio at Whitechapel Gallery, London – Review

The Arts of Peace – Japan: Courts and Culture at The Queen’s Gallery, London – Review

Pissarro: Impressionism and ‘Peaceful Anarchism’ at the Ashmolean – Review

Postwar Modern: Building out of the Bombsite – Review

The Caribbean Condensed: Life Between Islands at the Tate Britain – Review

LEMON by Kwon Yeo-Sun – Interview with Translator Janet Hong

Paula Rego: Re-Remembrance Through Art – Review

Mixing It Up: Challenging Modern Art’s Set Menu – Review

Lubaina Himid: A Full House at the Tate – Review

Dürer’s Journeys: a Short Haul of a Long Legacy – Review

Humane Review

Snowflakes Review

The Lodger Review

Small Change Review

The Nobodies Review

This Beautiful Future Review

Tokyo: Art and Photography – capturing the modern city in change and continuity – Review

Mighty Atom in Tortoise Slow Reviews

An Anarchic Angel – Eileen Agar at Whitechapel Gallery, London – Review

Epic Iran Review in Tortoise Creative Sensemaker: The Importance of Being Ernest

Epic Iran: A Panorama of Persians Past – Review

Crude Britannia Review in Tortoise Creative Sensemaker: The second homecoming

Atomic: How How Dr Strangelove Exploded Pop Culture Review in Tortoise Creative Sensemaker: A class of its own

Alice: The Icon Adapted And Appropriated For All Time – Review

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Characterised By Contrast – Review

Listening to Empire: Making Podcasts with Jelena Sofronijevic Interview

Royals And Rebels: Painting The Sikh Empire Back Into The Frame – Review

Marauding monsters and mythical odysseys, Ray Harryhausen’s animations are telling visions of their time – Ray Harryhausen: Titan of Cinema Review

Poltern Newsletter 001 – Poltern Editor Recommends EMPIRE LINES

Artemisia: A Shining Gloss Over A Career Of Great Light And Darkness – Artemisia Gentileschi: Curator’s Tour Review

E.A. Hornel: From Camera to Canvas – Review

Thought vs. action: Forster on culture

Wildfell Book Club Edition Two: Masked Observations

Howards End: An introduction

The limits of liminality: containing gender fluidity in Chinese and Japanese theatre

Through, From, and For the Margins: National Theatre Live’s The Lehman Trilogy

Student Arts Societies Must Collaborate Against Exclusivity

Drinking in narratives of female obsession: Yukio Mishima’s Thirst For Love

Diana of Dobson’s Review

Scottish Opera: Nixon in China 2020 Review

National Theatre Live: Cyrano de Bergerac Review

The Importance of Being Earnest Review

Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter’s Tale Review

National Theatre Live: Present Laughter Review

I Can Go Anywhere Review

Balkanarama Sessions Review

Paula Rego: Obedience and Defiance Review

National Theatre Live: Hansard Review

East Review

National Theatre Live: Fleabag Review

LeithLate 19: Moon Party Review

EZRA Review

Life With My Father, George Orwell Review

Gauguin at the National Gallery Review

A Play, a Pie and a Pint: Mack the Knife Review

Joker Review

Solaris Review

FreshFringe 2019: Summerhall at the Festivals Review

FreshFringe 2019: Crocodile Fever Review

FreshFringe 2019: Collapsible Review

The Duchess (of Malfi) Review

WHITE Review

Blue Planet II: Live in Concert Review

The Vaccines Review

FreshFringe 2018: Summerhall at the Festivals Review

YUGOSLAVIA / BALKANS

Introducing Jelena Sofronijevic, SGSAH’s New Resident Blogger

Singing with Birds: Artists Reimagine Human–Avian Kinship – Reviews

Bernat Klein’s Studio Saved at Auction

Ioana Leca, Artistic Director of the Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (GIBCA), in conversation with Jelena Sofronijevic – Interview

Men at Sea: Yannis Maniatakos and Zeljko Kujundzic – Reviews

Spotlight: Miloš Trakilović on conflict and soundscape – Interview

Weaving beyond borders: Tadek Beutlich’s On and Off the Loom at the Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft – Review

Cockta, Slovenia – The Vittles EU8 Restaurant Guide

‘Wodzirej’ Review: A Glance Into Communist Poland – Review

Understanding Yugoslav Socialism Through Contemporary Satire

Bulgaria on Film at the Barbican: A Conversation with January’s Alex Barrett and Teodosia Dobriyanova

The thematic links between M.K. Čiurlionis and Magdalena Abakanowicz – gowithYamo Newsletter

Worlds Together, Poles Apart (Part Two): Magdalena Abakanowicz at Tate Modern – Review

Worlds Together, Poles Apart (Part One): M.K. Čiurlionis at Dulwich Picture Gallery – Review

Performing Post-Yugoslavia in the UK – A Conversation with Natasha Stanić Mann and Jaka Škapin

Marina Abramović: Gates and Portals – Review

Yugonostalgic Cuisine: The Story of The Anglo-Yugoslav Café – Interview

Traditions and unity in town’s “little Yugoslavia”

BBC Radio 4: Telford, Little Yugoslavia

Jelena Sofronijević: The whales and the sharks of Yugoslav socialism

From Head to Tale: Understanding Yugoslav Socialism through Zoomorphism in Contemporary Satire

Balkanarama Sessions Review

POLITICS / HISTORY

Artist Corinne Silva on Israeli Settlement Gardens in Palestine – Interview

Introducing Jelena Sofronijevic, SGSAH’s New Resident Blogger

Heather Agyepong at New Art Exchange Nottingham – Interview

The First Bukhara Biennial Reveals That the Most Expensive Ingredient Is Time – Review

Singing with Birds: Artists Reimagine Human–Avian Kinship – Reviews

From the Garden: Exhibitions Across the UK and Ireland – Reviews

Bernat Klein’s Studio Saved at Auction

Hazel O’Sullivan’s Droichead na Sídhe at Focal Point Gallery – Interview

How does a tree fit inside a seed? – SEEDLINGS: Diasporic Imaginaries Exhibition Essay

Shades of Clay: Alice Rekab in Dublin, Liverpool, and Edinburgh – Reviews

Ioana Leca, Artistic Director of the Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art (GIBCA), in conversation with Jelena Sofronijevic – Interview

The cinematic mindset of Ali Cherri – Reviews

Tethered Forms and Soft Landscapes: Reframing the Erotic in Abstract Sculpture – Reviews

CAS Annual Conference: On Radicalism (1 May 2025) – Report

Net Works: Claudia Alarcón & Silät at the De La Warr Pavilion – Review

Men at Sea: Yannis Maniatakos and Zeljko Kujundzic – Reviews

Spotlight: Miloš Trakilović on conflict and soundscape – Interview

Weaving beyond borders: Tadek Beutlich’s On and Off the Loom at the Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft – Review

Aubrey Williams: Art, Histories, Futures, Ian Dudley and Maridowa Williams (2024) – Book Review

Dreams and Revelations: Portia Zvavahera’s ‘Zvakazarurwa’- Review

War Rugs: Afghanistan’s Knotted Histories of Conflict, Resistance & Desires – Review

Translations of Abstraction: Felipe Mujica at Beam, Nottingham – Review

Jakkai Siributr on stitching place and time at the Whitworth – Interview

Letter from Timișoara – Report for Art Monthly

The Camera Obscured: Photography, Film, and Moving Image at the V&A in London – Reviews

Claudia Martínez Garay at Nottingham Contemporary, Dundee Contemporary Arts, and Frieze 2024 – Interview

Art History and the United Arab Emirates – Book Review

Learning Curves: Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum at the Barbican – Review

An artist going places: Alia Farid at Oslo’s Henie Onstad Kunstsenter – Review

Artists & Animals: Adham Faramawy, Tarlan Lotfizadeh, Ouma & Mohammad Shaqdih – Review

Afropean: Johny Pitts on homes, history, and photography

Push and Pull Factors: Exhibitions about Migrations in Marylebone – Reviews

No Man is an Island: Mohammad Barrangi at b-side Festival 2024 and beyond – Reviews

Jelena Sofronijevic revisits Carrie Mae Weems: ‘Reflections for Now’ at the Barbican – Review

Not Only, But Also: Permindar Kaur’s Ambiguous Sculptures at John Hansard Gallery

Turner Prize nominee Jasleen Kaur on abstracting and alternating contexts – Interview

We Are Eagles: Outi Pieski and Maree Clarke at Tate Modern – Review

Soulscapes at Dulwich Picture Gallery: diasporic & emotional connections to landscape – Review

Deities and Idols: Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran at Tramway – Review

Edinburgh’s Environmental Exhibitions Part Two: The Local – Reviews

Edinburgh’s Environmental Exhibitions Part One: The Global – Reviews

Artist Spotlight: Maria Prymachenko – Review

Monica Sjöö: The Great Cosmic Mother at Modern Art Oxford – Review

Why and How to Walk a City – Angus Lockyer on historicity

Alternative Spaces: Li Yuan-chia & Friends at Kettle’s Yard – Review

Conversations in the Basque Country and Beyond at Bilbao Fine Arts Museum – Reviews

Infinite Viewpoints: Gego at the Guggenheim Bilbao – Review

You will follow the Rhein and compose play: Temitayo Ogunbiyi at Museum Tinguely – Review

IN CASE OF EMERGENCY: Koestler Arts 2023 at Southbank Centre – Review

Small and Mighty: South Asian Miniature Painting and Britain, 1600 to Now at MK Gallery – Review

‘Not to be exhibited but experienced’: Hélio Oiticica at the De La Warr Pavilion – Review

Intangible Englishness: Eric Ravilious in Sussex – Reviews

Long Read: Lisetta Carmi’s career-spanning interest in identities – Review

Last chance to see: Evelyn Hofer at The Photographers’ Gallery – Review

Reclaiming Visual Culture: BLACK VENUS at Somerset House – Review

Edinburgh Art Festival’s reckoning with the city’s colonial legacies – Reviews

Dovecot Studios’ history of women artists in Scotland – Review

Praxitella: Wyndham Lewis, Iris Barry, Helen Saunders at Leeds Art Gallery – Reviews

‘Word-Play’ Review: Are Some Things Better Left Unsaid?

Where Modernism meets Anti-Colonialism – gowithYamo Newsletter

Modernism meets anti-colonialism at Christie’s Kawkaba – Review

How ‘local’ should galleries be? – gowithYamo Newsletter

Creating and Curating Conversations in Oxford’s Communities – Reviews

Boundary Encounters: Modern Art Oxford’s Architecture of the Present – Review

Theatre Review: Anarchy comes to Britain – Accidental Death of an Anarchist at Theatre Royal Haymarket

Growing mindsets on Jean Cooke 🌲and Textiles in Cambridge – gowithYamo Newsletter

Objeks & Tings, in The best new podcasts of SUMMER 2023

Textiles in Cambridge: Mediterranean Embroidery at Fitzwilliam Museum – Review

Textiles in Cambridge: Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery at Kettle’s Yard – Review

Growing Mindsets on Jean Cooke at the Garden Museum

‘School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play’: Review

A Clear Comfort: Food and Queer performance art at Van Gogh House London – Review

Dedication at Marylebone Theatre – Review

Colour and Abstraction: Beatriz Milhazes at Margate’s Turner Contemporary – Review

Finding hope within Hurvin Anderson’s barbershops – Review

Does food have any place in an art gallery? – Hilma af Klint & Piet Mondrian at Tate Eats Review (Online and Print)

A Perfect Match?: Chaïm Soutine meets Leon Kossoff – Review

Tokyo Stories and Beyond at The Ashmolean – Reviews

Asian art in Oxford and Gwen John in Chichester – gowithYamo Newsletter

‘Wodzirej’ Review: A Glance Into Communist Poland – Review

Democratising Fashion? – Ashish: Fall in Love and Be More Tender – Review

Betty Woodman & George Woodman: domestic ceramic from Italy to Charleston – Review

‘Bad Women of China’ Review: Can Acupuncture Cure A Rightist?

The wait is over: Japan Reviews – gowithYamo Newsletter

Japan’s environments: Natural, local, global, imperial – Japan Reviews (3/3)

The women of Ukiyo-e – Japan Reviews (2/3)

‘Official’ Japan: A guide to Japanese national museums – Japan Reviews (1/3)

The best design exhibitions showing now in London – gowithYamo Newsletter

Making Sense: Ai Weiwei at The Design Museum – Review

Oskar Kokoschka: Europe’s Most Successful Self-Portrait Artist? – Review

Understanding Yugoslav Socialism Through Contemporary Satire

The Story of Japanese Food Told Through Four Arts

Visit Japan for free – from London – Reviews

Gulags, Safe Spaces and Spycams: VAULT Festival Roundup – Reviews

My Brother’s Keeper Review in Tortoise Creative Sensemaker: Cocaine Bear

Asian Art in the Netherlands – Reviews

‘Film for Freedom’ Review: Refugee Women Take Control of their Narratives

A Fascinating Production About Hiroshima: The Mistake Review

Feeling Her Way: Sonia Boyce’s ‘noisy exhibition’ – Review

Bulgaria on Film at the Barbican: A Conversation with January’s Alex Barrett and Teodosia Dobriyanova

gowithYamo’s Paris Week 🇫🇷 – Newsletter

The Big Three: A Weekend in Paris – Reviews

Picasso in Paris – Reviews

‘Foreign’ in France: Curating Migration and Art – Reviews

The revolutionary act of walking in the city – Women’s Journeys in the City and Beyond at the Royal Academy Review

Barbara Chase-Riboud: Infinite Folds at Serpentine North Gallery – Review

Kamala Ibrahim Ishag at The Serpentine: Exhibition Review

The thematic links between M.K. Čiurlionis and Magdalena Abakanowicz – gowithYamo Newsletter

Worlds Together, Poles Apart (Part Two): Magdalena Abakanowicz at Tate Modern – Review

Worlds Together, Poles Apart (Part One): M.K. Čiurlionis at Dulwich Picture Gallery – Review

A Tongue-in-Cheek Take on The One Thousand and One Nights: ‘Hakawatis’ Review

Review: ‘Mandela: The Musical’

A father, A daughter, A gulf: ‘Baghdaddy’ Review

Uneasy And Conflicting Identities- ‘12.37’ Review

Podcasts, Persia, and Murder – ‘Things Hidden Since The Foundation Of The World’ Review

Three Minutes: A Lengthening – From Holocaust to Home History – Review

Hong Kong: City on Fire – Interview with Producer Sinead Kirwan

A Real Horror Show: The Creepy and Uncanny in the Capital – Exhibition Reviews

Iphigenia in Splott at the Lyric Hammersmith – Review

Nalini Malani: My Reality is Different – Review

Conversations on the Thames: Curation Around the River – Exhibition Reviews

‘Godland’: Denmark and Iceland Share a Dark Pilgrimage – Review

Poles Apart: Dmitry at Marylebone Theatre – Review

Jews. In Their Own Words Review in Tortoise Creative Sensemaker: Escape to Reality

Young and Wild: Art in 1980s Germany – Review

Marina Abramović: Gates and Portals – Review

Uncomfortable Truths: The Apology at Arcola Theatre London – Review

The Singh Twins: Slaves of Fashion at Firstsite, Colchester – Review

Climes Against Humanity: The Trials at Donmar Warehouse – Review

Race Relations: The Fellowship at Hampstead Theatre London – Review

A Skin-Deep Look on the South Asian Women of Southall – Lotus Beauty Review

The Real Jerusalem – two Palestinians go dogging at the Royal Court – Review

Popping the Red Top on Power in the British Media at the British Library London – Review

The Windows of Your Mind – Reflections of Women at Dulwich Picture Gallery – Review

Island Mentalities: The Women Bridging Britain and Japan at Tsunagu/Connect – Review

The Arts of Peace – Japan: Courts and Culture at The Queen’s Gallery, London – Review

Postwar Modern: Building out of the Bombsite – Review

The Caribbean Condensed: Life Between Islands at the Tate Britain – Review

LEMON by Kwon Yeo-Sun – Interview with Translator Janet Hong

Paula Rego: Re-Remembrance Through Art – Review

Mixing It Up: Challenging Modern Art’s Set Menu – Review

Lubaina Himid: A Full House at the Tate – Review

Yugonostalgic Cuisine: The Story of The Anglo-Yugoslav Café – Interview

Mighty Atom in Tortoise Slow Reviews

Crude Britannia Review in Tortoise Creative Sensemaker: The second homecoming

Crisis on Campus in The Natural Health Service: Charlotte Street Partners

Crisis on Campus in Tortoise Sensemaker: Another Pandemic

Crisis on Campus

Listening to Empire: Making Podcasts with Jelena Sofronijevic Interview

Royals And Rebels: Painting The Sikh Empire Back Into The Frame – Review

Artemisia: A Shining Gloss Over A Career Of Great Light And Darkness – Artemisia Gentileschi: Curator’s Tour Review

Traditions and unity in town’s “little Yugoslavia”

BBC Radio 4: Telford, Little Yugoslavia

Jelena Sofronijević: The whales and the sharks of Yugoslav socialism

From Head to Tale: Understanding Yugoslav Socialism through Zoomorphism in Contemporary Satire

Through, From, and For the Margins: National Theatre Live’s The Lehman Trilogy

Isolation Interviews: Jelena Sofronijevic on Education Reform

Heard it at a ThinkIn: ‘There’s stigma about young people’

Student Arts Societies Must Collaborate Against Exclusivity

Could coronavirus change our education system for the better?

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AUDIO

Artist Corinne Silva on Israeli Settlement Gardens in Palestine – Interview

Podcasting the Past: Audio, Access and Authority in the Arts – British Art Network (BAN) Annual Conference 2024

Heather Agyepong at New Art Exchange Nottingham – Interview

Singing with Birds: Artists Reimagine Human–Avian Kinship – Reviews

War Rugs: Afghanistan’s Knotted Histories of Conflict, Resistance & Desires – Review

Jakkai Siributr on stitching place and time at the Whitworth – Interview

The Camera Obscured: Photography, Film, and Moving Image at the V&A in London – Reviews

Learning Curves: Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum at the Barbican – Review

We Are Eagles: Outi Pieski and Maree Clarke at Tate Modern – Review

Soulscapes at Dulwich Picture Gallery: diasporic & emotional connections to landscape – Review

The world in miniature: Maha Ahmed’s delicate flow between cultures – Review

Elbow Room – Burlington Contemporary Editor Recommends EMPIRE LINES

Why and How to Walk a City – Angus Lockyer on historicity

Small and Mighty: South Asian Miniature Painting and Britain, 1600 to Now at MK Gallery – Review

Modernism meets anti-colonialism at Christie’s Kawkaba – Review

Boundary Encounters: Modern Art Oxford’s Architecture of the Present – Review

WAVE: Currents in Japanese Graphic Arts at Japan House London – Review

Objeks & Tings, in The best new podcasts of SUMMER 2023

Textiles in Cambridge: Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery at Kettle’s Yard – Review

EMPIRE LINES Pod of the Week – Pod Bible Newsletter #174

6 of the best podcasts about art and artists

Leighton House rediscovered: Evelyn De Morgan, Shahrzad Ghaffari & Nour Hage – Review

Writers & Company Review in PodPod Earworms: What the industry’s been listening to this week

Finding hope within Hurvin Anderson’s barbershops – Review

The best design exhibitions showing now in London – gowithYamo Newsletter

Making Sense: Ai Weiwei at The Design Museum – Review

Visit Japan for free – from London – Reviews

A Triptych of Danish Modernism: Cobra and Degenerate Art in Denmark – Reviews

The revolutionary act of walking in the city – Women’s Journeys in the City and Beyond at the Royal Academy Review

Podcasts, Persia, and Murder – ‘Things Hidden Since The Foundation Of The World’ Review

Surrealism meets Design in The Design Museum’s Objects of Desire – Review

Nalini Malani: My Reality is Different – Review

The Singh Twins: Slaves of Fashion at Firstsite, Colchester – Review

The Caribbean Condensed: Life Between Islands at the Tate Britain – Review

Lubaina Himid: A Full House at the Tate – Review

Mighty Atom in Tortoise Slow Reviews

Listening to Empire: Making Podcasts with Jelena Sofronijevic Interview

Poltern Newsletter 001 – Poltern Editor Recommends EMPIRE LINES

E.A. Hornel: From Camera to Canvas – Review

BBC Radio 4: Telford, Little Yugoslavia

Student Radio: Broadcasting in Lockdown

Student Arts Societies Must Collaborate Against Exclusivity

An interview with the producer of INDIAscussion, a new podcast exploring textile production and sustainability

Paula Rego: Obedience and Defiance Review

Life With My Father, George Orwell Review

Joker Review

The Vaccines Review

LEARNING

Introducing Jelena Sofronijevic, SGSAH’s New Resident Blogger

Crisis on Campus in The Natural Health Service: Charlotte Street Partners

Crisis on Campus in Tortoise Sensemaker: Another Pandemic

Crisis on Campus

Isolation Interviews: Jelena Sofronijevic on Education Reform

Heard it at a ThinkIn: ‘There’s stigma about young people’

Student Arts Societies Must Collaborate Against Exclusivity

Could coronavirus change our education system for the better?

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