Art
Flights of fancy, bolts of beauty, and true imagination
Summer Rain & Uncertainty: What Light can Louis MacNeice’s Poetry Shed on our Cultural Moment?
What light can Louis MacNeice’s poetry shed on our cultural moment?
Punk Spirits at Pullens Yards: Meet the artists of Elephant & Castle
Walworth is made up of towering estates and roads of chocolate-box Victorian houses. It is also home to Pullens Yards...
Pay to Play: Rising Bills and Radio Silence
A staggering sum of local stations have seen their airwaves fall flat. Gilles Peterson, somehow, is still feeling optimistic...
Consider the Word: Elegant
Consider the word ‘elegant’ and try to conjure up a figure more refined than the 19th century English dandy...
Chasing a Rainbow: Bridging Illusion and Reality
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?
Beautiful Objects: The Queen’s Gloves
Cornelia James, a young Austrian Jewish girl newly graduated from the Vienna Arts Academy, flees the country. She comes to England as a refugee with no clothes and no money. What she does have, is a little case of coloured calfskins…
The Connection Between the Visible and the Invisible
Dr Hugh Welch Diamond was a Victorian psychiatrist and a passionate amateur photographer, who believed that photography could offer new ways to examine the mind of the mentally ill…