Arts & Culture

We all know what lies at the end of a rainbow — that proverbial pot of gold, that something much sought after but impossible to attain. But how do rainbows come about, and what lies at their origins?

Within the space of a contemporary art gallery we fill and we shade and we impose. Though, we do so nervously. We are not used to this way of seeing…

How many yellow-green liquids make claims on your state of body or mind? Follow the green fairy to turn-of-the-century Paris Bohemia…

As this year has unfolded, it has been hard to ignore the many media celebrations of female-led dramas. Variety, the American entertainment trade paper, has acclaimed the flexing of “femme muscle” in its headlines…

To say Ahuva Zeloof’s stone sculptures are alive with movement is not only an oxymoron, it’s practically admitting supernatural sensibilities. But how else can I describe it?

The notion of a ‘comedian’ as we understand it only began to emerge with the appearance of court jesters or minstrels, a capricious form of comedy first recorded in the 1300s…

As our first Londnr Artist of the Month, we look back over her four decades in the recording business, skimming through her gallery of striking on-stage personae and looking at the progression of her musical styles, as we celebrate the elusive, astonishing, audacious, one and only Annie Lennox…

The blue shade was synthesized accidentally in German scientist Johann Dippel’s laboratory, after he failed to alchemize gold…

You see, fellow reader, I too was a diary writer. And what images that conjures up! The lone man, tweed, tobacco-stained fingertips, driving rain outside, crackling fire inside, using his pen to funnel his unrequited love from heart, to crisp white page…