ARTS

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

January 16, 2025
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Artist Interview: Claudia Martínez Garay at Nottingham Contemporary, Dundee Contemporary Arts, and Frieze 2024

January 15, 2025

Art History and the United Arab Emirates – Book Review

January 10, 2025

Learning Curves: Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum at the Barbican – Review

December 15, 2024
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An artist going places: Alia Farid at Oslo’s Henie Onstad Kunstsenter – Review

November 13, 2024
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Artists & Animals: Adham Faramawy, Tarlan Lotfizadeh, Ouma & Mohammad Shaqdih – Review

November 1, 2024

Afropean: Johny Pitts on homes, history, and photography

October 23, 2024

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

October 2, 2024

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

September 17, 2024

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

September 15, 2024

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

August 22, 2024

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

August 19, 2024

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

June 4, 2024

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

March 5, 2024

Deities and Idols: Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran at Tramway – Review

February 6, 2024

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

January 23, 2024

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

January 22, 2024

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

January 5, 2024
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Artist Spotlight: Maria Prymachenko – Review

January 3, 2024

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

December 22, 2023

Elbow Room – Burlington Contemporary Editor Recommends EMPIRE LINES

December 21, 2023
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David Hockney: Paper, the Popular, and Populism in Art – Reviews

December 4, 2023

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

November 28, 2023

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

November 19, 2023

Infinite Viewpoints: Gego at the Guggenheim Bilbao – Review

November 16, 2023

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

November 15, 2023

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

November 3, 2023

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

October 30, 2023
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‘Not to be exhibited but experienced’: Hélio Oiticica at the De La Warr Pavilion – Review

October 25, 2023

Intangible Englishness: Eric Ravilious in Sussex – Reviews

October 20, 2023

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

October 18, 2023

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

September 22, 2023

Reclaiming Visual Culture: BLACK VENUS at Somerset House – Review

September 18, 2023

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

September 14, 2023

Dovecot Studios’ history of women artists in Scotland – Review

September 12, 2023

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

September 7, 2023

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

September 5, 2023

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

August 31, 2023

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

August 29, 2023

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

August 22, 2023

Where Modernism meets Anti-Colonialism – gowithYamo Newsletter

August 17, 2023

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

August 15, 2023
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Showing Now: Saatchi Gallery and White Cube’s Dark Landscapes – Reviews

August 9, 2023

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

August 7, 2023

How ‘local’ should galleries be? – gowithYamo Newsletter

August 3, 2023

Creating and Curating Conversations in Oxford’s Communities – Reviews

August 3, 2023

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

August 1, 2023

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

July 27, 2023
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Theatre Review: Anarchy comes to Britain – Accidental Death of an Anarchist at Theatre Royal Haymarket

July 23, 2023

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

July 21, 2023

Textiles in Cambridge: Mediterranean Embroidery at Fitzwilliam Museum – Review

July 21, 2023

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

July 21, 2023
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Growing Mindsets on Jean Cooke at the Garden Museum

July 20, 2023

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

July 19, 2023
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6 of the best podcasts about art and artists

July 19, 2023
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Leighton House rediscovered: Evelyn De Morgan, Shahrzad Ghaffari & Nour Hage – Review

July 14, 2023
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‘School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play’: Review

July 9, 2023
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Writers & Company Review in PodPod Earworms: What the industry’s been listening to this week

July 7, 2023

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

July 6, 2023

Dedication at Marylebone Theatre – Review

July 1, 2023

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

June 27, 2023
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Finding hope within Hurvin Anderson’s barbershops – Review

June 26, 2023
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Does food have any place in an art gallery? – Hilma af Klint & Piet Mondrian at Tate Eats Review (Online and Print)

June 21, 2023

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

June 20, 2023

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

June 16, 2023

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

June 14, 2023

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

June 14, 2023

Artist Interview: Kaye Donachie’s ‘Nuanced Personal Choreography

June 5, 2023

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

June 1, 2023

Tokyo Stories and Beyond at The Ashmolean – Reviews

June 1, 2023

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

June 1, 2023

Berthe Morisot: The Eighteenth Century Modernised? – Review

May 22, 2023

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

May 20, 2023

After Impressionism at the National Gallery – Review

May 20, 2023

The Rossettis Reframed at Tate Britain – Review

May 15, 2023

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

May 13, 2023

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

May 10, 2023

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

May 5, 2023

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

April 28, 2023

The wait is over: Japan Reviews – gowithYamo Newsletter

April 27, 2023

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

April 27, 2023

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

April 26, 2023

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

April 25, 2023

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

April 20, 2023

Aladdin Sane at 50 – Review

April 17, 2023

The best design exhibitions showing now in London – gowithYamo Newsletter

April 13, 2023
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Making Sense: Ai Weiwei at The Design Museum – Review

April 13, 2023
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A Bruising Insight into Alcoholism: ‘The Dry House’ Review

April 10, 2023

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

April 8, 2023

The Story of Japanese Food Told Through Four Arts

March 27, 2023

City and Sculpture – Reviews

March 14, 2023

Visit Japan for free – from London – Reviews

March 8, 2023
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Rebecca Fortnum spotlights the overlooked women of sculpture in Les Praticiennes – Review

March 7, 2023

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

March 3, 2023

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

March 2, 2023

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

February 28, 2023
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The Van Gogh Family – Review

February 27, 2023

Asian Art in the Netherlands – Reviews

February 23, 2023

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

February 22, 2023

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

February 17, 2023

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

February 16, 2023

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

February 16, 2023

A Fascinating Production About Hiroshima: The Mistake Review

February 10, 2023

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

February 9, 2023

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

February 3, 2023

gowithYamo’s Paris Week 🇫🇷 – Newsletter

February 2, 2023

The Big Three: A Weekend in Paris – Reviews

February 2, 2023

Picasso in Paris – Reviews

February 1, 2023

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

January 31, 2023

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

January 31, 2023
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Bare And Intimate: ‘New Plays: Japan’ Review

January 31, 2023

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

January 26, 2023

Kamala Ibrahim Ishag at The Serpentine: Exhibition Review

January 25, 2023

Accessibility at London Art Fair 2023 – gowithYamo Newsletter

January 19, 2023

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

January 19, 2023

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

January 12, 2023

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

January 12, 2023

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

January 10, 2023

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

January 5, 2023

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

December 21, 2022

Review: ‘Mandela: The Musical’

December 19, 2022

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

December 16, 2022

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

December 7, 2022

Uneasy And Conflicting Identities- ‘12.37’ Review

December 7, 2022

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

December 7, 2022

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

December 6, 2022

Making Modernism at the Royal Academy – Review

November 22, 2022

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

November 22, 2022

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

November 21, 2022

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

November 15, 2022

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

October 27, 2022

Wuthering Frights – The Moors at Hope Theatre London – Review

October 24, 2022

Iphigenia in Splott at the Lyric Hammersmith – Review

October 21, 2022

Nalini Malani: My Reality is Different – Review

October 20, 2022
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Conversations on the Thames: Curation Around the River – Exhibition Reviews

October 19, 2022

Frieze 2022 Retrospective – Review

October 18, 2022

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

October 17, 2022

Glimpses: We Are What We See – Review

October 13, 2022

Poles Apart: Dmitry at Marylebone Theatre – Review

October 6, 2022

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

October 6, 2022

Young and Wild: Art in 1980s Germany – Review

September 27, 2022

Marina Abramović: Gates and Portals – Review

September 26, 2022

Uncomfortable Truths: The Apology at Arcola Theatre London – Review

September 22, 2022

A Taste for Impressionism at the Scottish National Gallery – Review

September 20, 2022

Tracey Emin: I Lay Here For You – Review

September 7, 2022

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

August 26, 2022

Climes Against Humanity: The Trials at Donmar Warehouse – Review

August 22, 2022

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

August 18, 2022

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

July 18, 2022

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

July 14, 2022

Race Relations: The Fellowship at Hampstead Theatre London – Review

June 29, 2022

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

June 15, 2022

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

June 7, 2022

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

May 24, 2022

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

May 23, 2022

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

April 29, 2022

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

April 28, 2022

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

April 26, 2022

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

April 21, 2022

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

March 14, 2022

Postwar Modern: Building out of the Bombsite – Review

March 9, 2022

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

February 9, 2022

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

January 4, 2022
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Paula Rego: Re-Remembrance Through Art – Review

January 4, 2022
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Mixing It Up: Challenging Modern Art’s Set Menu – Review

December 15, 2021

Lubaina Himid: A Full House at the Tate – Review

December 8, 2021
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Dürer’s Journeys: a Short Haul of a Long Legacy – Review

November 26, 2021

Humane Review

November 5, 2021

Snowflakes Review

October 1, 2021

The Lodger Review

September 23, 2021

Small Change Review

September 21, 2021

The Nobodies Review

August 27, 2021

This Beautiful Future Review

August 23, 2021

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

August 22, 2021

Mighty Atom in Tortoise Slow Reviews

August 20, 2021

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

July 23, 2021

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

June 24, 2021

Epic Iran: A Panorama of Persians Past – Review

June 21, 2021

Crude Britannia Review in Tortoise Creative Sensemaker: The second homecoming

June 10, 2021

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

June 6, 2021

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

May 27, 2021

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Characterised By Contrast – Review

May 23, 2021

Listening to Empire: Making Podcasts with Jelena Sofronijevic Interview

April 25, 2021
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Royals And Rebels: Painting The Sikh Empire Back Into The Frame – Review

April 19, 2021

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

April 17, 2021

Poltern Newsletter 001 – Poltern Editor Recommends EMPIRE LINES

April 1, 2021
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Artemisia: A Shining Gloss Over A Career Of Great Light And Darkness – Artemisia Gentileschi: Curator’s Tour Review

March 29, 2021

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

February 19, 2021
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Thought vs. action: Forster on culture

July 17, 2020

Wildfell Book Club Edition Two: Masked Observations

July 10, 2020

Howards End: An introduction

July 6, 2020

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

June 22, 2020

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

May 22, 2020

Student Arts Societies Must Collaborate Against Exclusivity

April 1, 2020

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

March 21, 2020

Diana of Dobson’s Review

March 14, 2020

Scottish Opera: Nixon in China 2020 Review

March 1, 2020

National Theatre Live: Cyrano de Bergerac Review

March 1, 2020

The Importance of Being Earnest Review

February 28, 2020

Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter’s Tale Review

January 31, 2020

National Theatre Live: Present Laughter Review

January 28, 2020

I Can Go Anywhere Review

December 18, 2019

Balkanarama Sessions Review

December 6, 2019

Paula Rego: Obedience and Defiance Review

December 2, 2019

National Theatre Live: Hansard Review

November 24, 2019

East Review

November 23, 2019

National Theatre Live: Fleabag Review

November 19, 2019

LeithLate 19: Moon Party Review

November 19, 2019
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EZRA Review

November 13, 2019

Life With My Father, George Orwell Review

October 21, 2019

Gauguin at the National Gallery Review

October 17, 2019

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

October 6, 2019

Joker Review

October 6, 2019

Solaris Review

September 15, 2019

FreshFringe 2019: Summerhall at the Festivals Review

August 29, 2019

FreshFringe 2019: Crocodile Fever Review

August 29, 2019

FreshFringe 2019: Collapsible Review

August 29, 2019

The Duchess (of Malfi) Review

June 30, 2019

WHITE Review

March 27, 2019

Blue Planet II: Live in Concert Review

March 23, 2019

The Vaccines Review

February 2, 2019

FreshFringe 2018: Summerhall at the Festivals Review

October 2, 2018

POLITICS AND HISTORY

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

January 16, 2025
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Artist Interview: Claudia Martínez Garay at Nottingham Contemporary, Dundee Contemporary Arts, and Frieze 2024

January 15, 2025

Art History and the United Arab Emirates – Book Review

January 10, 2025

Learning Curves: Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum at the Barbican – Review

December 15, 2024
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An artist going places: Alia Farid at Oslo’s Henie Onstad Kunstsenter – Review

November 13, 2024
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Artists & Animals: Adham Faramawy, Tarlan Lotfizadeh, Ouma & Mohammad Shaqdih – Review

November 1, 2024

Afropean: Johny Pitts on homes, history, and photography

October 23, 2024

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

October 2, 2024

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

September 17, 2024

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

September 15, 2024

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

August 22, 2024

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

August 19, 2024

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

June 4, 2024

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

March 5, 2024

Deities and Idols: Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran at Tramway – Review

February 6, 2024

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

January 23, 2024

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

January 22, 2024

Artist Spotlight: Maria Prymachenko – Review

January 3, 2024

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

December 22, 2023

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

December 6, 2023

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

November 28, 2023

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

November 19, 2023

Infinite Viewpoints: Gego at the Guggenheim Bilbao – Review

November 16, 2023

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

November 15, 2023

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

November 3, 2023

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

October 30, 2023
,

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

October 25, 2023

Intangible Englishness: Eric Ravilious in Sussex – Reviews

October 20, 2023

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

October 18, 2023

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

September 22, 2023

Reclaiming Visual Culture: BLACK VENUS at Somerset House – Review

September 18, 2023

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

September 14, 2023

Dovecot Studios’ history of women artists in Scotland – Review

September 12, 2023

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

September 5, 2023

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

August 22, 2023

Where Modernism meets Anti-Colonialism – gowithYamo Newsletter

August 17, 2023

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

August 15, 2023
,

How ‘local’ should galleries be? – gowithYamo Newsletter

August 3, 2023

Creating and Curating Conversations in Oxford’s Communities – Reviews

August 3, 2023

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

August 1, 2023

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

July 23, 2023

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

July 21, 2023

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

July 21, 2023

Textiles in Cambridge: Mediterranean Embroidery at Fitzwilliam Museum – Review

July 21, 2023

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

July 21, 2023
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Growing Mindsets on Jean Cooke at the Garden Museum

July 20, 2023

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

July 9, 2023
,

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

July 6, 2023

Dedication at Marylebone Theatre – Review

July 1, 2023

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

June 27, 2023
,

Finding hope within Hurvin Anderson’s barbershops – Review

June 26, 2023
,

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

June 21, 2023

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

June 20, 2023

Tokyo Stories and Beyond at The Ashmolean – Reviews

June 1, 2023

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

June 1, 2023

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

May 13, 2023

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

May 10, 2023

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

May 5, 2023

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

April 28, 2023

The wait is over: Japan Reviews – gowithYamo Newsletter

April 27, 2023

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

April 27, 2023

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

April 26, 2023

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

April 25, 2023

The best design exhibitions showing now in London – gowithYamo Newsletter

April 13, 2023
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Making Sense: Ai Weiwei at The Design Museum – Review

April 13, 2023
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Oskar Kokoschka: Europe’s Most Successful Self-Portrait Artist? – Review

April 8, 2023

Understanding Yugoslav Socialism Through Contemporary Satire

April 3, 2023

The Story of Japanese Food Told Through Four Arts

March 27, 2023

Visit Japan for free – from London – Reviews

March 8, 2023
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Gulags, Safe Spaces and Spycams: VAULT Festival Roundup – Reviews

March 3, 2023

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

March 2, 2023

Asian Art in the Netherlands – Reviews

February 23, 2023

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

February 16, 2023

A Fascinating Production About Hiroshima: The Mistake Review

February 10, 2023

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

February 9, 2023

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

February 3, 2023

gowithYamo’s Paris Week 🇫🇷 – Newsletter

February 2, 2023

The Big Three: A Weekend in Paris – Reviews

February 2, 2023

Picasso in Paris – Reviews

February 1, 2023

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

January 31, 2023

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

January 31, 2023
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Barbara Chase-Riboud: Infinite Folds at Serpentine North Gallery – Review

January 26, 2023

Kamala Ibrahim Ishag at The Serpentine: Exhibition Review

January 25, 2023

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

January 12, 2023

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

January 12, 2023

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

January 10, 2023

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

December 21, 2022

Review: ‘Mandela: The Musical’

December 19, 2022

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

December 16, 2022

Uneasy And Conflicting Identities- ‘12.37’ Review

December 7, 2022

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

December 7, 2022

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

December 6, 2022

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

November 22, 2022

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

November 15, 2022

Iphigenia in Splott at the Lyric Hammersmith – Review

October 21, 2022

Nalini Malani: My Reality is Different – Review

October 20, 2022
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Conversations on the Thames: Curation Around the River – Exhibition Reviews

October 19, 2022

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

October 17, 2022

Poles Apart: Dmitry at Marylebone Theatre – Review

October 6, 2022

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

October 6, 2022

Young and Wild: Art in 1980s Germany – Review

September 27, 2022

Marina Abramović: Gates and Portals – Review

September 26, 2022

Uncomfortable Truths: The Apology at Arcola Theatre London – Review

September 22, 2022

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

August 26, 2022

Climes Against Humanity: The Trials at Donmar Warehouse – Review

August 22, 2022

Race Relations: The Fellowship at Hampstead Theatre London – Review

June 29, 2022

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

June 15, 2022

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

June 7, 2022

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

May 30, 2022

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

May 24, 2022

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

April 29, 2022

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

April 21, 2022

Postwar Modern: Building out of the Bombsite – Review

March 9, 2022

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

February 9, 2022

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

January 4, 2022
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Paula Rego: Re-Remembrance Through Art – Review

January 4, 2022
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Mixing It Up: Challenging Modern Art’s Set Menu – Review

December 15, 2021

Lubaina Himid: A Full House at the Tate – Review

December 8, 2021
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Yugonostalgic Cuisine: The Story of The Anglo-Yugoslav Café – Interview

August 23, 2021

Mighty Atom in Tortoise Slow Reviews

August 20, 2021

Crude Britannia Review in Tortoise Creative Sensemaker: The second homecoming

June 10, 2021

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

May 27, 2021
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Crisis on Campus in Tortoise Sensemaker: Another Pandemic

May 6, 2021

Crisis on Campus

May 6, 2021

Listening to Empire: Making Podcasts with Jelena Sofronijevic Interview

April 25, 2021
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Royals And Rebels: Painting The Sikh Empire Back Into The Frame – Review

April 19, 2021

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

March 29, 2021

Traditions and unity in town’s “little Yugoslavia”

October 8, 2020

BBC Radio 4: Telford, Little Yugoslavia

September 6, 2020

Jelena Sofronijević: The whales and the sharks of Yugoslav socialism

June 15, 2020

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

June 1, 2020

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

May 22, 2020

Isolation Interviews: Jelena Sofronijevic on Education Reform

May 15, 2020

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

April 4, 2020

Student Arts Societies Must Collaborate Against Exclusivity

April 1, 2020

Could coronavirus change our education system for the better?

April 1, 2020

Marion Cleland Lochhead

December 6, 2018

A New Generation of European Energy Strategies

April 26, 2017

Vietnam waives visas for UK travellers

June 22, 2015

YUGOSLAVIA / BALKANS, AND CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE

Cockta, Slovenia – The Vittles EU8 Restaurant Guide

December 20, 2024

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

May 13, 2023

Understanding Yugoslav Socialism Through Contemporary Satire

April 3, 2023

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

February 3, 2023

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

January 12, 2023

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

January 12, 2023

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

January 10, 2023

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

November 21, 2022

Marina Abramović: Gates and Portals – Review

September 26, 2022

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

August 23, 2021

Traditions and unity in town’s “little Yugoslavia”

October 8, 2020

BBC Radio 4: Telford, Little Yugoslavia

September 6, 2020

Jelena Sofronijević: The whales and the sharks of Yugoslav socialism

June 15, 2020

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

June 1, 2020

Balkanarama Sessions Review

December 6, 2019

EDUCATION

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

May 27, 2021
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Crisis on Campus in Tortoise Sensemaker: Another Pandemic

May 6, 2021

Crisis on Campus

May 6, 2021

Isolation Interviews: Jelena Sofronijevic on Education Reform

May 15, 2020

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

April 4, 2020

Student Arts Societies Must Collaborate Against Exclusivity

April 1, 2020

Could coronavirus change our education system for the better?

April 1, 2020

AUDIO

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

January 16, 2025
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Learning Curves: Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum at the Barbican – Review

December 15, 2024
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We Are Eagles: Outi Pieski and Maree Clarke at Tate Modern – Review

June 4, 2024

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

March 5, 2024

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

January 5, 2024
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Elbow Room – Burlington Contemporary Editor Recommends EMPIRE LINES

December 21, 2023
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Why and How to Walk a City – Angus Lockyer on historicity

December 6, 2023

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

October 30, 2023
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Modernism meets anti-colonialism at Christie’s Kawkaba – Review

August 15, 2023
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Boundary Encounters: Modern Art Oxford’s Architecture of the Present – Review

August 1, 2023

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

July 27, 2023
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Objeks & Tings, in The best new podcasts of SUMMER 2023

July 21, 2023

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

July 21, 2023
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EMPIRE LINES Pod of the Week – Pod Bible Newsletter #174

July 19, 2023
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6 of the best podcasts about art and artists

July 19, 2023
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Leighton House rediscovered: Evelyn De Morgan, Shahrzad Ghaffari & Nour Hage – Review

July 14, 2023
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Writers & Company Review in PodPod Earworms: What the industry’s been listening to this week

July 7, 2023

Finding hope within Hurvin Anderson’s barbershops – Review

June 26, 2023
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The best design exhibitions showing now in London – gowithYamo Newsletter

April 13, 2023
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Making Sense: Ai Weiwei at The Design Museum – Review

April 13, 2023
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Visit Japan for free – from London – Reviews

March 8, 2023
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A Triptych of Danish Modernism: Cobra and Degenerate Art in Denmark – Reviews

February 28, 2023
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The revolutionary act of walking in the city – Women’s Journeys in the City and Beyond at the Royal Academy Review

January 31, 2023
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Podcasts, Persia, and Murder – ‘Things Hidden Since The Foundation Of The World’ Review

December 7, 2022

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

October 27, 2022

Nalini Malani: My Reality is Different – Review

October 20, 2022
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The Singh Twins: Slaves of Fashion at Firstsite, Colchester – Review

August 26, 2022

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

February 9, 2022

Lubaina Himid: A Full House at the Tate – Review

December 8, 2021
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Mighty Atom in Tortoise Slow Reviews

August 20, 2021

Listening to Empire: Making Podcasts with Jelena Sofronijevic Interview

April 25, 2021
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Poltern Newsletter 001 – Poltern Editor Recommends EMPIRE LINES

April 1, 2021
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E.A. Hornel: From Camera to Canvas – Review

February 19, 2021
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BBC Radio 4: Telford, Little Yugoslavia

September 6, 2020

Student Radio: Broadcasting in Lockdown

August 19, 2020

Student Arts Societies Must Collaborate Against Exclusivity

April 1, 2020

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

March 13, 2020

Paula Rego: Obedience and Defiance Review

December 2, 2019

Life With My Father, George Orwell Review

October 21, 2019

Joker Review

October 6, 2019

The Vaccines Review

February 2, 2019

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