Smirnenski & His “Story of the Ladder" | Sophia Verai
Hristo Smirnenski is one of Bulgaria's most cherished poets and writers of the 20th century, known for his socially conscious and deeply...
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ARTS AND LITERATURE
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Oct 205 min read
Rule, Britannia! Britannia, Rule the Waves! | Elizabeth Kalu
Vanity Fair ’s March 1997 magazine issue stands as an emblem of '90s Britain. "London Swings Again” was the outrageous headline, a cheeky...
Oct 153 min read
Bilibin: Blending Art Nouveau with Folklore | Sophia Verai
Ivan Bilibin (1876-1942) is widely recognised for his intricate, vibrantly detailed illustrations inspired by Russian folklore, mythology...
Oct 135 min read
‘Ophelia’: Fresh Eyes and a Sound Mind | Sophia Verai
Editor's note: This entry won joint 1st place in the English Association's 2024 Betty Haigh Shakespeare Prize. The editor of The Rose...
Oct 64 min read
Klimt: The Art Nouveau Virtuoso of Gold and Symbolism | Sophia Verai
Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) was an Austrian painter, highly influential in early 20th-century art. Known for his lush and decorative style...
Sep 253 min read
Mucha: The Master of Art Nouveau | Sophia Verai
Born in 1860 in Moravia (now the Czech Republic), Alphonse Mucha is one of the most celebrated artists associated with the Art Nouveau...
Sep 183 min read
Dominion: Hirst Brings Unfamiliar Feeling to our Most Familiar Works | Cleo Bador
Myra Hindley’s mugshot, at 9 by 11 feet. The image at the center of headlines and much controversy following its display in the 1997...
Jul 103 min read
The Controversy of Marina Abramović: Art or Self-Destruction? | Clara Biancelli
Marina Abramović is a name which has made itself more and more relevant in the art world over the past few years, due to her uniquely...
Jul 57 min read
Subnautica: Creating a Horror Experience (Part 7) | Danny Andrews
Click here to read Part 6 Subnautica and Player Agency: The Issue of a Map Boundary The previous article in this series started the...
Jun 294 min read
Subnautica: Creating a Horror Experience (Part 6) | Danny Andrews
Click here to read Part 5 Section 3: Manipulation of Player Agency Subnautica and Player Agency: Threat and Challenge The previous...
Jun 194 min read
Subnautica: Creating a Horror Experience (Part 5) | Danny Andrews
Click here to read Part 4 Subnautica and Atmosphere: Behavioral design in the Mountains and the Dunes The previous article in this series...
Jun 154 min read
Subnautica: Creating a Horror Experience (Part 4) | Danny Andrews
Click here to read Part 3 Section 2: Subnautica’s Atmosphere - Visual Design, Sound Design, Behavioral Design Subnautica and Atmosphere:...
Jun 125 min read
Subnautica: Creating a Horror Experience (Part 3) | Danny Andrews
Click here to read Part 2 Subnautica and Solitude: The Sunbeam The previous article explored the second main element of Subnautica’s...
Jun 42 min read
Subnautica: Creating a Horror Experience (Part 2) | Danny Andrews
Click here to read Part 1 Subnautica and Solitude: The Degasi Both of the two main sub-plots of Subnautica also play an important role in...
May 284 min read
Subnautica: Creating a Horror Experience (Part 1) | Danny Andrews
This is the first article in an exciting series that explores a video game's mechanics, themes and effect, in the same manner any other...
May 183 min read
The Role of Renfield in 'Dracula' | Sophia Verai
Dracula as a novel betrays a complex relationship with the Victorian conception of insanity and mental illness. It follows, then, that...
May 76 min read
Women in Revolt! - Art for More Than ‘Art’s Sake’ | Nour Ghannam
How does art shape the political? Is it really true that art is ‘for art’s sake’? The way in which art and artists engage with the...
Jan 225 min read
Literary Intertextuality in Emerald Fennel’s Saltburn | Chloe Joyce
Emerald Fennel's unhinged class thriller 2023 film Saltburn, follows scholarship student Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) who befriends the...
Dec 5, 20234 min read
Smells like Teen Spirit | Nour Ghannam, Salma Amin
How does music shape our adolescent experience? In the words of Katrina McFerran of the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, “the way that...
Mar 24, 20235 min read
Van Gogh: Madman or Genius? | Fela Callahan
Van Gogh’s art was one of the first to particularly resonate with me. I remember going into my secondary school library to take books...
Nov 6, 20222 min read
Thoughts on The National Opera's Tosca | Luna Hills
Puccini’s ‘Tosca’ tells the tragic story of opera singer Floria Tosca, who fights to save her lover, the lone artist Cavaradossi, from...
Oct 2, 20223 min read
What is a portrait?-Looking at Donald Rodney's 'A Land of Milk and Honey II' | Aliya Mueller-Koegler
What exactly makes an artwork a portrait? The Tate defines it as ‘a representation of a particular person’, whereas the Merriam Webster...
Dec 13, 20213 min read
Swimming Upstream: David Hammons’ Revolutionary Art | Renee Bel-Momodu
Emerging as a key figure in the landscape of American art over the last fifty years, David Hammons’ heterogeneous practice has...
Nov 22, 20214 min read
The Sinister Revolution of Punk Rock | Irine Teneishvili
Influenced by the dissent against authorities voiced by psychedelic rock in the 1960s and characterised by Jim Morrison’s transcendent,...
Nov 17, 20212 min read
‘Story telling is a political act’ – Polly Creed’s Lecture | Mia Spiller
On Tuesday 16th November, Polly Creed gave a lecture on Art and Activism- Making Politically Engaged Theatre & Film. During the talk she...
Nov 17, 20215 min read
60s Body Art: A Cultural Fad or a Feminist Revolution? | Eve Scott
Emanating in the counterculture of the liberated 60s, the phenomenon of body art marked a dramatic upheaval of the portrayal of the self....
Dec 10, 20191 min read
Looking back on Carols at St Margaret’s | Rhiana Thomas
Last Monday guests flocked to st Margarets church for an evening of Christmas cheer. I was in the choir, right in the midst of the action...
Nov 25, 20191 min read
‘Grief is the Thing with Feathers’ by Max Porter. A review of one of the decade’s most i
Told through chaotic and unconventional prose, ‘Grief is the Thing with feathers’ explores grief felt after the loss of a loved one and...
Mar 13, 20192 min read
Why ‘Animals’ Is A Masterpiece | Jacob Seager
Continuing on my first review of ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’, I have decided to write about my favourite album of all time, also by Pink...
Feb 14, 20193 min read
English Literature: What does it mean to today’s youth?|Aashna Shaikh & Alaa El-Hannach
Photograph: Queen Alexandra Sixth Form In the UK, the number of students studying A-Level English Literature has been in decline, with...
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