30 Years of Greenwich + Docklands International Festival
From radical roots in the Sixties, outdoor arts have grown to become an essential part of nation-defining celebrations. At the forefront of the sector is Greenwich+Docklands International Festival, which has been lighting up lives and filling historic squares, town centres and unused spaces with spectacular large and small scale productions for 30 ......
Oliver Simon, Signature Magazine, and the rise of British Neo-Romantic Art
The significant influence of the periodical Signature on fine art has long been overlooked. While few people nowadays will have read it, no journal has greater claim to have stimulated the taste that became British neo-romanticism in the mid-20th century. Oliver Simon, its editor, publisher, patron and printer was something of an enigma. ......
In 1997 sixty-two containers fell off the cargo ship Tokio Express after it was hit by a rogue wave off the coast of Cornwall, including one container filled with nearly five million pieces of Lego, much of it sea themed. In the months that followed, beachcombers started to find Lego washed up on beaches across the south west coast. Among the ......
Adventure in Art is the 1947 autobiography of one of the key female protagonists from the British Modernist era - Lucy Carrington Wertheim. Republished by Unicorn to coincide with the forthcoming Towner exhibition Lucy Wertheim: Patron, Collector and Gallerist (Summer 2022), this book brings to a contemporary audience the trials and tribulations ......
As the issue of slavery edged the United States toward Civil War, the close-knit, influential, politically progressive community of French-speaking free people of color in New Orleans founded a newspaper: L'Union: memorial politique, litteraire et progressiste appeared in 1862, succeeded by La Tribune de la Nouvelle-Orleans in 1864.
On 27 January 1945 Otto Frank was liberated from Auschwitz by Russian soldiers. At that point not only his journey home started, but also his long quest to find out what had happened to his wife Edith, his daughters Margot and Anne and the four other people with whom he had been in hiding in the Annex at 263 Prinsengracht in Amsterdam: Herman and ......
After The Dance delves into the intriguing life of South African artist Le Roux Smith Le Roux (1914-1963), a brilliant yet obsessive outsider who was appointed Deputy Keeper of the Tate Gallery in 1950 at the age of thirty-six. Renowned for his sharp intelligence and methodical approach, Le Roux boldly questions the price paid by Director Sir John ......
This is a rare chance to re-discover a contemporary account of a military conflict which took place a Century ago. The Agony of Belgium, written in 1914 by Frank Fox, a war correspondent, recounts events that the modern European mind would probably wish to forget. The bravery and resilience of the relatively new and untested Belgian Army, ......
This ground-breaking publication provides a new view of the great Scottish artist Alan Davie (1920-2014), whose intensely physical gestural painting stood the staid post-war British art world on its head. In advance of a new Davie gallery in Hertford, the visually spectacular book argues that far from being an essentially historical figure, ......
