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Art & CultureAugust 2, 2017

Women In Art: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

By Amanda

Our roving cultural reporter Elena Bowes is back in her home town of New York this week, chatting to curator Natalie Bell of the New Museum about Artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and her new show, Under Song For A Cypher. If… Read More

Art & Culture, Out & AboutJune 7, 2017

Art, Style and Sewing at the Venice Biennale 2017

By Amanda

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

Art & Culture, Out & AboutJune 16, 2016

See This: Switch House at The New Tate Modern

By Amanda

I’d like to make a prediction that soonish, the new Switch House extension of the Tate Modern will become the place all of us go to get the best view of London. On the tenth floor (ten floors!) there is… Read More

Art & Culture, Fashion & BeautyJune 2, 2016

Women In Art and Style: Georgia O’Keeffe

By Amanda

I know all focus is currently on the fabulous new Switch House extension to the Tate Modern in London, but tbh I’m much more excited about Georgia O’Keeffe’s retrospective coming up this July. Women artists are at last moving centre… Read More

Out & AboutMay 11, 2016

See This: The Dog Show at Brighton Festival

By Amanda

Regular readers may remember the love we have for Joanna Osborne and Sally Muir’s wonderful knitted and painted dogs (see here). When we heard they were participating in Brighton Festival with an open house, centred entirely around a love of… Read More

Art, Culture & Craft, We Are ReadingFebruary 1, 2016

Saul Leiter, with introduction by Max Kozloff

By Amanda

There is a small but perfectly formed exhibition currently running at The Photographer’s Gallery in London that everyone should go to if they have a spare 15 minutes. It only costs £3.00 to visit and it will brighten your week,… Read More

Art & CultureJanuary 13, 2016

See This: Champagne Life, Girl Power at The Saatchi Gallery

By Amanda

Great news for better acknowledgement of women in art. Regular readers may remember we’ve been banging on about the appalling underrepresentation of women in art for some years now. Well, The Saatchi Gallery’s first exhibition of the year is Champagne… Read More

Art & Culture, Out & AboutNovember 4, 2015

See This: The Fabric of India at the V&A

By Amanda

The Fabric of India at The V&A is a no brainer exhibition to visit, even if you have only the very smallest interest in textiles, or just own a pashmina. It’s a gloriously colourful round up of the importance of… Read More

Fashion & Beauty, Out & AboutOctober 23, 2015

The Best Of Frieze: Final round up

By Amanda

Our final 2015 Frieze post, with a round up of interesting outfits that weren’t really a trend, more individually fabulous. First up, remember I mentioned furry texture being a bit of an art trend on Monday? It’s also turning up… Read More

Art & CultureOctober 22, 2015

Best of Frieze: Art & Outfits

By Jane

My turn to share my favourite take aways from Frieze – drawn towards colour, texture and strange arty style, I have no idea who the art is by, as I just snapped away intuitively- enjoy. Save… Read More

Art & CultureOctober 15, 2015

Weekday Women: Carmen Herrara

By Jane

It’s art week here at the Womens Room; both Amanda and I will be visiting Frieze and I have been researching up and coming exhibitions for new seasons colour influences – yes people I am in A/W 17/18 already! I… Read More

Out & AboutSeptember 16, 2015

See this: Irwin ‘Bud’ Crosthwait

By Jane

Many times I have walked past the above image of Irwin (Bud) Crosthwait, and wondered about his life. Hanging on the wall of my sister in law Stefanie’s house in the tiny mountain village of Menzonia in Switzerland, ‘uncle Bud’… Read More

Novels & Biogs, We Are ReadingJune 18, 2015

The Improbability of Love by Hannah Rothschild

By Amanda

I was tipped off about this great book by the excellent Lee Randall, who reviewed it on her blog A History of my Life in 100 Objects. Lee writes a far more informed review than I ever could, but I… Read More

Art & CultureJune 1, 2015

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

By Amanda

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

Art & CultureMay 28, 2015

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

By Amanda

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

Art, Culture & Craft, We Are ReadingMay 13, 2015

Sonia Delaunay by Tate Publishing

By Amanda

For anyone unable to visit the truly wonderful Sonia Delaunay exhibition at Tate Modern any time soon, then I can highly recommend the book. I bought it, something I rarely do these days due to shelf space and general book… Read More

Out & AboutMay 5, 2015

See This: Sonia Delaunay and Marlene Dumas at Tate Modern

By Amanda

Womenfolk, drop everything and rush, yes RUSH, to Tate Modern to see these two wonderful exhibitions by artists Sonia Delaunay and Marlene Dumas, which currently sit grandly on opposite sides of the Tate’s exhibition space. I am hoping that one… Read More

Food, Uncategorized, We Are ReadingApril 13, 2015

Dinner With Jackson Pollock by Robyn Lea

By Amanda

For any arty chefs out there, this might appeal, as who knew artist Jackson Pollock was an enthusiastic cook? Dinner With Jackson Pollock is a very lovely looking, ring-bound cookery book by luxury book publishers Assouline, which specialises in one-upmanship… Read More

Art & CultureFebruary 16, 2015

The importance of clutter #2 and more things to see in February

By Amanda

Clutter and collecting are officially having a moment. You may remember we first mentioned it back here at Frieze Master’s and when Paul Smith showed us how he worked best surrounded by inspiring ‘stuff”. Well now London is awash with… Read More

Art & CultureFebruary 6, 2015

Cultural Crawl: good things to see in February

By Amanda

Did you read in the comments on yesterday’s post on Soft Living, that the Danish have a word for this? It’s ‘hygge’, so let’s make February a ‘hygge’ month and be nice to ourselves. Make some time for ‘hygging’ while… Read More

Art & CultureOctober 27, 2014

The importance of clutter: The Collector at Frieze Masters

By Amanda

The art at Frieze in London this year was as good as ever, no sign of any downturn/recession/holding back amongst the super rich, who bought in abundance according to our inside sources. So far so normal. But there was something… Read More

Fashion & BeautyOctober 7, 2014

Dressing like Barbara (Hepworth)

By Amanda

Yep, I’m still enamoured with Barbara and I’ve been browsing the internet to see if I can Dress Like Barbara…well, dress a bit like Barbara, she was keen on a wrapped and belted jacket being whip thin, but I’m going… Read More

Art & CultureJune 19, 2014

The one where I interview Middleagedad on his art project Resonate Generate

By Amanda

Regular readers may remember Barnes Middleagedad is doing a fine art degree at Chelsea College of Arts. Well, it’s Final Show time and Resonate Generate is his final piece of work. it’s a pop up 70s vinyl Punk V Prog… Read More

Art & CultureJune 11, 2014

Guest Blog: Julia Little reviews East London Art Tours

By Amanda

Today we are joined by guest blogger Julia Little who recently went on one of Hymie Dunn’s East London Art Tours and loved it, so we asked if she would review the tour for us here. Over to you Julia….… Read More

Art & CultureMay 16, 2014

Lund, in Sweden, my new favourite place.

By Amanda

Regular readers will know how keen we are on all things Scandinavian, from TV drama to interior style, we really do have a crush on the area. So it was not exactly hard to say yes to Gudrun’s Sjödén’s recent… Read More

Fashion & BeautyMay 9, 2014

A couple of nice dresses to buy from John Lewis

By Amanda

I am indebted to DisneyRollerGirl for highlighting the Antoni & Alison dresses that have been designed for John Lewis to celebrate the retailer’s 150th anniversary. Sadly by the time I clicked on the links on her post, most of the… Read More

Out & AboutApril 2, 2014

See this: Phyllida Barlow DOCK

By Amanda

Breaking news…Amazingly, older women artists can still do great things! You may remember we have a bit of a thing about how women in art are represented (ie, very badly). Well, here’s a bit of good news on that front.… Read More

Art & CultureFebruary 11, 2014

Where Are The Women? Tate and Le Meridien get the conversation started

By Amanda

A while ago you may remember we wrote about Art Under Attack at Tate Britain and how we’d discovered a terrific mini exhibition about Suffragette art curated by artists and academics Olivia Plender and Hestor Reeve. How fabulous then, to… Read More

Art & CultureJanuary 10, 2014

Move over Tate: art sneaks onto the high street

By Amanda

An interesting thing is happening in London concerning contemporary art. Where previously we might flock to big museums such as Tate Modern to see work by our favourite artists, now it’s more likely that a gallery such as the Gagosian… Read More

Art & CultureNovember 1, 2013

Mother and Daughter artists: Michele Deiters and Bibi van der Velden

By Amanda

During Frieze week a while back I got to meet Dutch mother and daughter sculpting team Michele Deiters and Bibi van der Velden, who had a small show at The Couture Lab in London (it’s on until Nov 8th). Both… Read More