venice biennale

Art, Style and Sewing at the Venice Biennale 2017

When I’ve been to the Venice Biennale in previous years, I’ve always observed a glamorous mix of both art and style. This year, not so much on the style front. The art was as thought provoking as always but I… Read More Read More

Street Style: Arty dressing at the Venice Biennale

I was in Venice last weekend for the Art Biennale and so I took the chance to shoot a few stylish exhibition attendees. It was gloriously sunny (remember what that’s like?) so I concentrated on women who had got that… Read More Read More

Venice: more art from the Biennale, plus a few travel tips

For anyone wanting to visit Venice, I’d urge you to go off season (don’t even think about August) and to consider staying away from the main drag, on either the Dorsoduro or the Guidecca. We stayed at La Calcina, a… Read More Read More

Women artists at The Venice Art Biennale, TWR’s top picks

Last week I went to the Venice Art Biennale, I know, tough gig, traipsing around the beautiful Italian city, eating more pasta that is good for a girl and trying to figure out how a bottle of tequila can be… Read More Read More

Venice Art Biennale: musical cash point machines

One of the very best ideas I saw at the Venice Art Biennale wasn’t actually very ‘arty’ or beautiful, but it was an ingenious idea that, if I ruled the world, I’d implement everywhere tomorrow. It was Algorithm, the musical… Read More Read More

Venice Art Biennale: our review

This weekend I went with art student middleagedad (and with gorgeous metallic blue nails thanks to No7) to see the Venice Art Biennale 2011. I know, I know, it’s hard sometimes doing this blog, it’s a tough life, but we… Read More Read More

The Women’s Room potted guide to: Venice

    We travel a lot here at The Women’s Room, both with the day job and because we like it, so it seems sensible to pass on our travel tips to you. Admittedly most of our travelling revolves around… Read More Read More

Buying Less: New Year Rules For Clothes

Not wanting to start the year with too much self-celebration but…small drum roll here please…I did it! A whole year of buying Nothing New. I didn’t buy any new clothes in 2017, despite a late trip to (very tempting) India… Read More Read More

Older Models Are Beautiful, Why Don’t We See More Of Them?

I was going to write about my trip to the Venice Biennale art show today, but that will have to wait, because Harper’s Bazaar needs a big pat on the back for its July photo shoot, featuring two beautiful, older… Read More Read More

Nice to meet you, Atelier Raptus & Rose!

Regular readers may remember our post on the Venice Biennale, where I snapped a few stylish art goers back in the early summer. The last image on the post was of a group of lovely models who I thought may… Read More Read More

See this: Waste Not by Song Dong

I am really excited that this Waste Not exhibition by Chinese Artist Song Dong has finally come to the UK. I’ve read lots about it because it’s been on a world tour for a couple of years and I keep… Read More Read More

Burts Bees Now Do Lipsticks

Just a quickie today, as I’m in Venice this week attending the Biennale, do follow us in instagram @thewomensroomblog if you want a tour of the arty highlights while you are at your laptop. Anyway, the lovely Burt’s Bees lip… Read More Read More

Readers kitchens: Massimo Del Carlo

  OK, so this isn't a real reader's kitchen, it's an art installation we saw when we were at the Art Biennale in Venice a couple of weekends ago, but we think they may have got the idea from our… Read More Read More