16th April 2017
After that final episode, if you're anything like me, you need to read about it, so here are links to Stateside reaction.
• Homeland finale - showrunner Alex Gansa talks Season 6, Carrie’s future and planning the end game: from Variety's Cynthia
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16th April 2017
I have been wrestling with how best to contribute regularly to this blog while I am much preoccupied with a number of productions and several more extended pieces of writing. Sunday links columns like this have been the only ones
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15th April 2017
Three current shows in the States, each featuring American women artists, that I really really wish I could see.
• A groundbreaking show to confront the gender bias in art: 'Women of Abstract Expressionism': Christopher Knight for L.A. Times reviews the
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15th April 2017
Today is the last day of the run at the Almeida of Robert Icke's staging of Hamlet with Andrew Scott as the Prince. The production transfers to the Harold Pinter Theatre, 9 June - 2 September. These are
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14th April 2017
Long ago, back in 1971, I went one Sunday afternoon to what was then The Tate Gallery to see the exhibition of work by Eduardo Paolozzi. It was one of the very first contemporary art shows that I had ever
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19th March 2017
As usual (or given recent experience, on occasions), a list of links to articles and videos that have engaged me over the past week. Many thanks to those who alerted me to a number of them.
• Senses of Cinema
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12th March 2017
I know it's pointless gently flagellating myself in public for failing to post more regularly. So I'll save that for the privacy of my keyboard (as well as being both rueful and grateful for how busy I am), and offer
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26th February 2017
Since I have failed for the past two Sundays to compile a list of links to things that have interested or intrigued me recently, let us begin today's (acknowledging the usual thanks to those who have alerted me to many
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23rd February 2017
For the last few years I have been invited to give a group of classes for the Royal College of Art's Critical Writing in Art & Design MA programme. Across four weeks a group of super-smart students help me explore some
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22nd February 2017
John Wyver writes: Earlier today I spoke on a panel at the Archives, Access and Research conference at BFI Southbank. Co-organised by the Centre for the History of Television Culture and Production at Royal Holloway, University of
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