Our cultural imagination may have come to expect a certain image of teachers within popular media: a figure who is uptight, sharp-tongued and strict, wielding a school board pointer and no-slack attitude. Picture Bart Simpson writing lines over and over on a chalkboard in The Simpsons intro, or – if...
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Entering Leamington Spa Art Gallery’s new exhibition, A Different View: Women Artists in the Collection, you’ll be met by the varied works of over 50 British women artists. Curated together with a desire to restructure women’s historical absence from the art world, the exhibition bridges together artists from the late...
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Ritz and glamour, elegance and class: every year the Cannes film festival offers a swish scene for iconic high-fashion moments. From May 12 to 23 this year, film stars walked the fest’s red carpet and posed at photocalls, raising the sartorial to the status of cinematic event. As ever, old...
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Women’s place within the art world has been – and is often thought to still be – marginal. Institutional obstacles prevent female success, male artists dominate top galleries and the art history behind these spaces consists of a very Eurocentric, very male perspectives. Pushing the fight against this historical absenting...
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Gemma Rice reviews the critically acclaimed Indian drama
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