Reviews

On November 6th, 2024

Review: ‘Haegue Yang: Leap Year’ – A Playful Exploration of Light and Sound, at Hayward Gallery until 5 January 2025

Hayward Gallery’s latest exhibition Haegue Yang: Leap Year is both familiar and strangely unsettling. You enter via a curtain of bells, creating a melodic clanging that reverberates through the ...

On November 1st, 2024

Review and Exclusive Interview: Romain Rachline Borgeaud’s ‘Stories’ – The Tap Dance Sensation: Dark noir drama breathes new life into old genres, at Peacock Theatre until 2 November

What three words could be used to describe Stories – The Tap Dance Sensation? Smoke, silhouettes and suspense come to mind, with the lasting impression of the show being one of the many dramatic, ba...

On October 30th, 2024

Review: Critical Edge Collective’s ‘From the Ground Up’: Investigating knowledge in the post truth era through collaborative art – at Lewisham Arthouse, October 2024

The breakdown of information systems in today’s world has created an abstract and hazy reality. The daily struggle of filtering a relentless cascade of mostly irrelevant content has overwhelmed the ...

On October 24th, 2024

Review: ‘Waves’ of Displacement: Huang Po-Chih’s evocative exploration of labour and identity, at Hayward Gallery until 5 January

Taiwanese artist Huang Po-Chih’s first solo exhibition at The Hayward Gallery, Waves, delivers a compelling exploration of globalised trade. Rooted in his mother’s experience as a garment labourer...

On October 16th, 2024

Review: Maharaja Ranjit Singh and the Great Sikh Kingdom at the Wallace Collection, until 20 October

The Wallace collection’s current major exhibition, ‘Ranjit Singh: Sikh, Warrior, King’ is lovingly curated. It covers the rise to power of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and then the decline of h...

On September 24th, 2024

Review: ‘Fragile Beauty’: Timeless Moments from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Photography Collection at V&A – until 5th January 2025

Turn the corner to Fragile Beauty and a curved, soft pink wall greets you. A single, striking black and white image hangs prominently, its starkness a counterpoint. The image is Richard Avedon’s Ron...

On September 18th, 2024

Film Review: Cédric Kahn’s ‘The Goldman Case’: A Riveting Exploration of Justice – In UK and Irish Cinemas 20 September

THE GOLDMAN CASE starts silent, a full-on immersion into the context of the trial of Pierre Goldman, a left-wing intellectual, thief and revolutionary accused of multiple robberies and two murders in ...

On September 16th, 2024

Review: Bahamian Artist Tavares Strachan’s ‘There Is Light Somewhere’ brings stories of unsung cultural pioneers to the forefront

Inside Tavares Strachan: There Is Light Somewhere, daylight is replaced by a hushed, almost reverent darkness. Spotlights pierce the gloom, highlighting individual works with dramatic intensity. A low...