Category: Review

Art | Culture | Ideas

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Bryan Moriarty, Sounds Like Fun – review

A funny, heart-warming story about what happens when a pair of twentysomethings embark on an open relationship.


30, March 2023 0

Conor Sneyd, Future Fish – review

An energetic caper about a young man who finds himself caught up in his colleagues’ various hairbrained schemes and conspiracy theories. 


7, March 2023 0
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Mark Hyatt, ‘Love, Leda’ – review

Review of Mark Hyatt’s previously unpublished, recently discovered queer novel


16, February 2023 0
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Best Queer Books of 2023 – guide to the most exciting, vibrant fiction and nonfiction

Best queer books fiction and nonfiction books coming up in 2023


30, January 2023 0

Pure Painting – 100-word Review of Sam Gilliam: Late Paintings

Review of Sam Gilliam Late Paintings exhibition at Pace gallery by Daniel Barnes


30, October 2022 0

Shifting Perspectives – review

Leeds Art Gallery, 27 May – 30 October 2022 Leeds art collection was initially built on the spoils of slavery and exploitation. In this ground-breaking show, curator Laura Claveria sets out to ask some hard questions and to hear some difficult answers about how those communities and cultures, who are so essential to Leeds’ success,…
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11, July 2022 0

Damien Hirst: Relics and Fly Paintings

FAD Magazine, 2021 Brooding, silent, inert, the works in this exhibition are far beyond death, having passed through rigor mortis, decomposition and mumification to emerge on the other side as totems to an artist’s fascination with the grim and inescapable fact of mortality. More of the same, you might say. And how wrong you would…
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6, April 2022 0

Gavin Turk: The Years

Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, 26 April – 14 June 2013 The years have been kind to Gavin Turk: his work is mature and yet provocative, he has made a living as an artist and not sold out, and the ideas retain an urgency from not being overstated. But who is Gavin Turk and why…
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3, January 2021 0