Are Tronies the Historical Precursor to the Emoji?
9 March 2024 • Charlotte Rickards
As humans, we’re evolutionarily drawn to read the faces of others. We scan for eyebrows that lift or furrow; we… Read More
9 March 2024 • Charlotte Rickards
As humans, we’re evolutionarily drawn to read the faces of others. We scan for eyebrows that lift or furrow; we… Read More
7 February 2024 • Charlotte Rickards
In recent years, there’s been a proliferation of shows on women artists working in abstraction in the later half of… Read More
19 January 2024 • Charlotte Rickards
When Virginia Woolf sat down to write Orlando, she wasn’t writing it with an abstract readership in mind. Really, she was thinking only of one person: her lover, Vita Sackville-West. We just got to be able to read it.
22 November 2023 • Charlotte Rickards
disembowelled and spilled onto the canvas at Tracey Emin’s latest TEARS artist residency show at TKE Studios in Margate.
13 November 2023 • Charlotte Rickards
‘It’s impossible’, was what Linsey Young, the curator of Tate Britain’s new exhibition, Women in Revolt! was told by artist Margaret Harrison, when asked if she wanted to be involved. ‘But that’s no reason not to try.’
13 October 2023 • Charlotte Rickards
In a conference speech this week, British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak declared that ‘a man is a man, and a… Read More
28 September 2023 • Charlotte Rickards
There’s quite a specific idea of Sarah Lucas in the public imagination. It’s a kind of gritty androgyny; crude, tough, that’s swaggering and scoffing back at you.
20 September 2023 • Charlotte Rickards
London Design Festival 2023 is officially on. Taking place for nine days from 16th to 24th September, the festival puts on a programme of events, exhibitions, and installations across 13 districts across the capital.
19 September 2023 • Charlotte Rickards
Forgeries, the female body, and wealthy English families: V&A Jameel Fellow, Dima Srouji unearths the history of Palestinian glassware in the museum’s collection