Christina Lamb is an award-winning Foreign Correspondent; whose most recent work documents the lives of those who find themselves caught in amidst conflict. I meet Christina Lamb, just before she gives a talk at the RAMM on her ‘Years of living dangerously’. A title which is without exaggeration: she has in fact been trapped in […]
Is David Hockney’s painting ‘Pool with Two Figures’ worth 61 million pounds?
Commissioned to design a stained-glass window for Westminster Abbey, David Hockney, heralded as “one of the greatest artists of the Queen’s reign” has become, quite literally, enshrined in British culture. The celebrated 81-year-old artist, renowned for being a leading figure of the 1960s Pop art movement, has once again become a subject of international recognition […]
Interview: with Emma Gannon, the author of ‘The Multi-Hyphen Method’
Writer and broadcaster, Emma Gannon, is probably best known for her book and podcast of the same title, Ctrl Alt Delete: an exploration of growing up online and the way in which our online projects are revolutionising our lives. After graduating from Southampton University with a degree in English Language and Literature, Emma has written […]
Review: The Royal Ballet’s ‘Elizabeth I’
In the current climate of obsessions with regal romances, the Royal Ballet’s performance of Elizabeth I does not differ. Will Tuckett and Alastair Middleton’s portrait of the Virgin Queen provides an isolated illustration of her supposed sex life, without regard to the complexities of her political career. The performance commences with a scene of her […]