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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

Fashion & BeautyJuly 4, 2016

Georgia O’Keeffe at Jigsaw

By Amanda

Georgia O’Keeffe’s new exhibition opens this week people…Regular readers will remember I’ve been practicing dressing like Georgia since here and never before have I been more hopeful that some great art will lift my spirits. Much like with the Barbara… 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

Art, Culture & Craft, We Are ReadingApril 4, 2016

Frida Kahlo, Life Portraits by Zena Alkayat and Nina Cosford

By Amanda

This is a delightful little biography; part illustration, part hand written assessment of Frida Kahlo’s life, all of which adds up to a very endearing and charming insight into one of our favourite women in art. The book’s illustrations are… 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, Fashion & BeautyJune 24, 2015

Barbara Hepworth, Tate Britain, Jaeger and Margaret Howell

By Amanda

As regular readers will know, Dame Barbara Hepworth is one of our art heros and we’ve written about her influence on us before here. Now the rest of the world is catching on to her brilliance, with Tate Britain’s major… 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

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