“I felt like there were no people like me in the sector,” said Michelle McGrath, who has spent over a decade working at organizations including the British Museum and Royal Museums Greenwich. “Obviously there are financial barriers,” she said—but she also noted a myriad of ways to feel out of place as someone working class,
Autumn is the best time of year for art exhibitions in the UK, but before the country’s major institutions and galleries put on their big end of year shows you’ve still got the time to catch their summer extravaganzas. This is your last opportunity to see everything from clever, funny installation art to big, imposing
Film — as if anyone could doubt it — is increasingly important in telling the Jewish story, whether in harrowing documentaries or cleverly fictionalised versions of true-life issues. Nowhere demonstrates the breadth of film’s reach more than this year’s UK Jewish Film Festival (UKJFF). It hit the headlines this week after its full programme was
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Vogue magazine unveils a grand London fashion show next month, it will be unusually democratic. Rather than an elite group of celebrities and insiders being seated on the front row, anyone who pays £25
We ended up eating an excellent lunch in the gallery’s restaurant called Light – a good name for the style of cooking and for the gallery itself and for the effect of being near the sea. What’s Harrow doing in China? Harrow School is planning a new “campus” in China, on top of the eight
A backlash over plans to reform The Arts Society, one of the UK’s oldest arts organisations, led to the resignation of its chief executive, chief operating officer and most of its trustees earlier this year. Florian Schweizer, the chief executive, and Tim Nicholls, the chief operating officer, departed at the society’s annual general meeting (AGM)
Ken Kiff trained at Hornsey School of Art in the mid 50s and lived in the area for many years, going on to teach at both Chelsea School of Art and the Royal College of Art. A Hundred Suns runs at Three Highgate gallery in Highgate High Street until January 5th and shows paintings, prints, and drawings by the artist, focusing on
Miu Miu has always been a brand that goes beyond clothing, weaving the complex and intricate stories of women into their catwalk shows and other ventures. Since 2011, the Italian fashion house has presented its widely acclaimed Women’s Tales, providing a platform for female filmmakers to share their take on womanhood. Now, as part of
In the age of the blockbuster, it’s rare to get the chance to see art that is wholly unfamiliar. But when Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious opens at the Dulwich Picture Gallery next month, almost everything on display will be new to most visitors. The first major exhibition devoted to the artist, it will include more
Sotheby’s later this month hopes to make the auction house’s first ever sale of an artwork made by a humanoid robot. Ai-Da, a humanoid robot artist, is contributing “AI God,” a portrait of Alain Turing, the mathematician and computer scientist considered to be the progenitor of modern computing, to what Sotheby’s calls a “digital art