Category: Culture & Events
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Kim Buck and the Trouble with Precious Things
At Designmuseum Danmark, more than 150 works trace the Danish goldsmith’s investigations into craftsmanship, material value and the peculiar relationship between jewellery and its wearer. The signet rings in Kim Buck’s Opblæst (Puffed Up) series appear to have been inflated. Their swollen forms, rounded edges and puckered seams suggest something made from soft plastic. In…
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Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant at Tate Britain
An exhibition at Tate Britain brings together more than 300 works by the two Bloomsbury artists, including paintings, furniture, ceramics and a reconstruction of their studio at Charleston, the Sussex farmhouse that became the centre of their shared artistic life. In 1914, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant painted the same mantelpiece at 46 Gordon Square,…
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Mother Tongues and Happy Meal: Two New Exhibitions in Copenhagen
Frederik Nystrup-Larsen examines our diminishing familiarity with the natural world, while photographer Fryd Frydendahl turns her attention to the imagery of American consumer culture. Both exhibitions open on 20 November at V1 Gallery and Eighteen in Copenhagen. One of Frederik Nystrup-Larsen’s new paintings is titled Skovviol / Early Dog-Violet (2026). The name identifies a particular…
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Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider and the Violin That Once Belonged to Fritz Kreisler
The Danish violinist and conductor returns to Copenhagen’s Royal Danish Theatre on 23 November with Schubert, Grieg and Kreisler — performing on the very instrument Kreisler used to premiere Elgar’s Violin Concerto in 1910. On 10 November 1910, Fritz Kreisler gave the first performance of Edward Elgar’s Violin Concerto at London’s Queen’s Hall, with the…
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LIFE Is Coming Back. But Who Gets to Tell the Story?
The return of one of the twentieth century’s most influential magazines is welcome news. But its revival under wealthy private ownership raises questions about editorial independence, the economics of prestige publishing and what remains of LIFE’s original purpose. On 23 November 1936, the first issue of LIFE appeared on American newsstands, its cover dominated by…
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FAIRYLAND: TIM WALKER AND THE POLITICS OF BEING SEEN
At London’s National Portrait Gallery, the photographer who transformed fashion into elaborate theatre turns his imagination towards queer history. With some 250 portraits spanning activists, artists, performers and cultural pioneers, Tim Walker’s Fairyland: Love and Legends is at once a celebration of difference, an examination of historical visibility and a deeply personal reconsideration of the…
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GOD SAVE THE QUEENS: THE WOMEN WHO INVENTED PUNK’S FUTURE
Fifty years after punk erupted into British cultural life, a landmark exhibition at London’s Museum of Youth Culture challenges one of popular music’s most persistent historical distortions. Through previously unseen archives, photography, fashion and fine art, God Save the Queens restores the women who shaped punk to their rightful place: not at the margins of…
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Istanbul: The City That Contains Everything
Istanbul in the autumn and the case for one of the world’s great cities at its most completely itself There is a moment, arriving in Istanbul for the first time, when the scale of the city’s ambition becomes briefly visible all at once. It happens most reliably from the Bosphorus — from a ferry crossing…
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Sacré-Cœur: Faith, Politics and a Night Above Paris
Sacré-Cœur occupies an unusual place in the imagination of Paris. Its white domes are immediately recognisable, yet the familiarity of the silhouette can obscure the complexity of the building beneath it. Above Montmartre’s streets, the basilica brings together religious devotion, nineteenth-century political conflict and an architecture designed to make belief visible across a city. Its…
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The 90s at Tate Britain: Art, Fashion and the Politics of Belonging
The 1990s have become unusually easy to recognise and increasingly difficult to remember in their complexity. Kate Moss, a slip dress, a warehouse party, a shark suspended in formaldehyde: the decade survives through images whose familiarity can conceal the circumstances that produced them. Tate Britain’s new exhibition, The 90s: Art and Fashion, brings this visual…
