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Author: Emily Wigoder

Exploring history and identity through the art of Yinka Shonibare

12th April 201912th April 2019Emily Wigoder

The Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square has played host to many different artworks, from a large blue cockerel to a marble torso-bust of Alison Lapper. However, only one of the pieces that have graced the plinth has paid respects to the historical symbolism of Trafalgar Square, and in particular to Nelson’s Column itself. Yinka Shonibare’s […]

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‘The Colour of Memory’: Pierre Bonnard at the Tate Modern

9th April 20197th April 2019Katya Alban

In true Luddite fashion, I have tended to prefer art where I can see a clear and realistic depiction of life; what is more impressive than the ability to capture a fragment of life with such clarity that you can hardly distinguish it from a photograph? Nevertheless, I was intrigued by the spam I had […]

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Van Gogh and Britain: The People’s Vincent

2nd April 20192nd April 2019William Atkinson

Today I’m a very lucky man writing about a very unlucky man. I’m lucky for seeing the Tate Britain’s Van Gogh and Britain before it opened. It’s an extraordinary exhibition, worth every penny. The unlucky man needs no introduction. Vincent Van Gogh is the quintessential tortured artist. Imaging him now, you’ve an an image of […]

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M&M’s and Monopoly: a review of Joel Golby’s essay collection ‘Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant’

26th March 201927th March 2019Morgan Jones

As a consumer, I am the disloyal type. I buy own brand, whatever’s cheapest; I latch onto other people’s accounts and do not mourn when I am eventually flicked away by a change of password; I don’t keep up with any TV shows and scale the New Statesman paywall each week via numerous incognito tabs, […]

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