Review: Screening in the UK, ‘Hong Kong: City on Fire’ documents the lives of Hong Kong protesters after the world’s media attention has moved elsewhere. Artmag contributor Jelena Sofronijevic talks with the film’s Edinburgh-based producer Sinead Kirwan.
Review: Artmag contributor Jelena Sofronijevic talks to Natasha Stanic Mann and Jaka Škapin, who recently featured in London’s VOILA! EUROPE festival – about performing in the UK, their post-Yugoslavian background, and an ever-turbulent Europe.
Review: Jen Silverman’s charming, rough-and-ready, Hallowe’en-y take on Charlotte Brontë’s work at the Hope Theatre, above London’s Hope and Anchor pub.
Review: At Hammersmith’s Lyric Theatre, Sophie Melville’s one-woman turn as Iphigenia in Splott – a district of Cardiff – more darkly relevant than when it debuted seven years ago.
Review: A darkly unbalanced relationship rises to the fore on a pilgrimage to build a church, in Hlynur Pálmason’s ‘Godland’, showing as part of the BFI London Film Festival.
Review: London’s newest theatre begins its new season with a resurrection, in Peter Oswald’s dramatic verse, of German writer Friedrich von Schiller’s last, unfinished play about power in Russia and Poland.
A new co-production from London’s Arcola and New Earth Theatre gives voice to East Asian women forced into military sexual slavery in the Second World War.
Review: Young people living a nightmare future put our present in the dock in Dawn King’s dark near-dystopian trial drama at London’s Donmar Warehouse.
Review: SCENA Theatre’s one-man production of Franz Kafka’s commentary on ‘civilisation’ and its relationship to animals is based on a fascinating premise.
Review: The intricacies of relationships cut across one family’s navigation of death, violence, race and systemic injustice in The Fellowship, at London’s Hampstead Theatre.
Review: A Southall beauty salon is the setting for an examination of life in mid-1960s London for South Asian and Sikh women, in Hampstead Theatre’s production of Tamasha theatre company’s ‘Lotus Beauty’.
Review: London’s Royal Court Theatre offers a futuristic history of Palestine’s contested land and legacies from a surprising perspective.
Review: The British Library’s exhibition ‘Breaking the News’ challenges how Britain consumes news media – and remakes it through public conversation – in a 500-year journey taking us via Oscar Wilde and Edward Snowden.
Review: Dulwich Picture Gallery’s current exhibition examines a previously-neglected theme: how windows frame – literally – the way women are seen in art, exploring voyeurism and female visibility in art from ancient civilisation to the present.
Review: Pepa Duarte’s one-woman show is an examination of the rich joys of food – and its obsessional, personal aspect of body-image.
Review: Part-oral history project, and part-verbatim theatre, Tsunagu bridges Britain and Japan by storytelling – in theatre and by exhibition – in Shoreditch, London.
Review: London’s Whitechapel Gallery is showing a comprehensive survey of the artist’s studio, across nationalities, genders, ethnicities, and media.
Review: Oxford’s Ashmolean paints a new picture of the father of French Impressionism, focusing on his collaborative instincts.
Review: The twenty years following the end of the second world war were to see a momentous re-shaping of British society, art, and modes of expression. London’s Barbican centre, itself a product of the post-war spirit, hosts an examination, in art, of those decades.
Review: Forty artists’ stories reflect 70-odd years of cross-cultural connections between Britain and the Caribbean in ‘Life Between Islands’ at Tate Britain in London.
Review: Mixing It Up: Painting Today at London’s Hayward Gallery challenges the notion of painting itself, revealing unexpected connections and new thinking.
Review: Turner Prize-winning artist Lubaina Himid has become a mainstay of British contemporary art, and the subject of a new exhibition at London’s Tate Modern.
Review: A peerless draughtsman, Albrecht Dürer was a widely-travelled documenter of contemporary European subjects in a time of plague; his journeys and legacy are examined at London’s National Gallery.
Review: Whitechapel Gallery is showing the largest exhibition yet of painter Eileen Agar, articulating the crucial role that she played in the development of European twentieth-century culture.
