Self-portrait

good times, bad times, who knows?

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The question at London Fashion Week is: do you want the good news or the bad news first? The outlook for British fashion depends on where you look. At SS Daley’s show in a light-flooded Royal Academy gallery, the picture was rosy. Harry Styles, who became Steven Stokey-Daley’s financial backer when he took a minority … Read more

Rue Britannia review – reshaping art history

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Artemisia glows, illuminates and closes in the all-consuming darkness. She looks straight at us, turns her head towards us upon arrival, speaking directly from the silence of the art. Her hands also speak: one rests on a wheel pierced with gruesome iron points (attributes of the saint whose role she plays), the other holds an … Read more