In 16th century Venice, female artist Galactia is commissioned by the state to paint a wall-sized canvas to commemorate the victory of the Battle of Lepanto. This initiates the events ...
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Classically, bronze is thought of as the material of antiquity. The discovery of the endurable properties of such copper alloys certainly allowed our ancestors to make more robust tools and ...
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Last week from October 11th to 14th, the Bargehouse of Oxo Tower Wharf hosted the annual Moving Image fair, London’s only fair solely dedicated to moving image and contemporary video ...
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The current exhibition at the Royal Festival Hall at the Southbank Centre consists of paintings, poetry, sculptures, textiles, and videos by offenders, secure patients, and detainees.
The fact that this is ...
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WTF is Frieze?
Frieze Art Fair, for those of you who have missed the press coverage, is big. It attracts over 60,000 visitors a year and generates enough acres of print ...
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What do dildos, wheelchairs and steroids have in common? There are probably only two places in London you will find these three things in conjunction. One of them is not ...
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It was a wonderful quality of Leonardo da Vinci’s, that he had the abilities, both mental and practical, necessary to reach the minutiae of a subject such as to become ...
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With most of the advertising targeting the Freshers, Monday’s Big Tickle comedy evening seemed to have slipped past the rest of the college unnoticed. Despite this, the predominantly fresher based ...
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Forgive me, reader, if you’ve reached Olympic saturation point over the summer. No doubt I would have done so long ago, had I not spent a large part of those ...
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One of the few enduring life lessons I learnt during my time in halls is that some guilty pleasures are more acceptable than others. Even in the relatively tolerant enclave ...
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