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The long awaited Leonardo da Vinci exhibition has finally arrived. Posters are plastered to every billboard in the area and banners hang outside the entrance to the gallery. Hoards of people gather outside London’s national gallery, forming endless queues that snake around the corners of Trafalgar Square, all hoping to get a golden ticket that...
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Born into a musical family in 19th Century Paris and graduating from the Lycee-Louise-Le-Grand with a baccalaureate in literature, Edgar Degas seemed destined to be infamously creative. The Royal Academy of Art’s newest exhibition is a celebration of Degas’ work; entitled ‘Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement’, the curators have put together an extensive collection...
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Proclaiming he is not a historian, but an artist, Grayson Perry asks us not to look for meaning in his newest exhibition held at the British Museum. But as Grayson lets us into his wonderfully imaginative world, it is hard not to see the meaning behind both his own work, and the pieces that he...
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I am sitting in Cairo airport as I write this blog after spending a week promoting MSL. I arrived during a maelstrom of political activity and protests and while not directly affected, I was very aware of the impact of people taking action and the power of social media. The many women that I met...
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Over the weekend I watched a film by Almodóvar called La piel que habito. It was just beautiful. Almodóvar is a skilful storyteller and in the film he reorganises time producing metaphors for our bodies, our perceptions and our identities. The colours and surfaces that Almodóvar created looked as if they had been painted by...
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