A Breathtaking New Look at Celtic Dance Costuming Through the Lense of Fantasy Photography When Rosemary Cooper was just starting her career as a competitive Irish dancer, she wanted a dress that didn’t look like anyone else’s. This was the inspiration her mother, Linda Perry Cooper, needed to make Irish dance dresses that drew from an impressive knowledge of opera and ballet design. The mother and daughter team wanted to take the popular concept of elaborate story dresses that told myths in the form of applique and embroidery and deconstruct it. They took the influences of the Celtic and Gaelic…
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Enter the world of ABBA, and Greece, by attending MAMMA MIA! THE PARTY at The O2 London – it’s the best in immersive theatre. And what a great idea! Yes, it’s the 02, but once you enter you are transported to a Greek-style courtyard (on the Greek island of Skopelos no less) where it will make you forget the horrific Jubilee Line ride that took you there. It’s a romantic courtyard that seats over 200 people with tables scattered on top of balconies, lower levels, stage level and the ground floor – surrounded by Greek-style leaves hanging down from the…
Conveying his own fear of ignorance, challenging people’s perceptions of ‘where we came from and where we are going’, Monaco-born artist Patrick Faure presents Agnoiaphobia, a new series of paintings, to art lovers at ACAI Art Gallery (Booth 6.7) at START Art Fair (Saatchi Gallery, London 26 – 29 September 2019). Building on Socrate’s view that the purpose of humans is to learn, the Agnoiaphobia series confronts the viewer with scenes and creatures that are unexplainable. In doing so, Faure wants to recreate the same confusion that visitors to ancient sites such as Göbekli Tepe in Turkey and Peru’s Huaca…
SPIES IN DISGUISE, starring Will Smith and Tom Holland alongside co-stars Karen Gillan, Rashida Jones and DJ Khaled, will release in UK cinemas in December. Super spy Lance Sterling (Will Smith) and scientist Walter Beckett (Tom Holland) are almost exact opposites. Lance is smooth, suave and debonair. Walter is… not. But what Walter lacks in social skills he makes up for in smarts and invention, creating the awesome gadgets Lance uses on his epic missions. But when events take an unexpected turn, Walter and Lance suddenly have to rely on each other in a whole new way. And if this odd couple can’t learn to work as a…
‘Big’ the movie was such a hit when it was released in 1988 as it brought out the inner child in all of us. ‘Big the Musical’, which just opened at London’s Dominion Theatre, doesn’t quite do the same. Playing for a short 9 week run, ‘Big the Musical’ doesn’t bring the films magic to the stage, but it is, nonetheless, a show of pure fun where the audience is expected to believe there is an actual boy on stage in a man’s body who wants to be a boy again. The man, played by a charming Jay McGuiness (last…
Jacqueline Loekito is a visionary female designer. Born from a British mother and an Indonesian father, Jacqueline has a special cocktail mix of a background that shaped the designer she is today. The Jacqueline Loekito label was founded in 2012 after she graduated from University for the Creative Arts, UK. After finishing her Master at the Institute of Fashion Design FHNW HGK, she decided to continue working and living in Basel. She has a passion to make Switzerland more colourful and daring. Jacqueline redefines distinctive heteronormativity within traditional fashion by creating artistic genderless collections. Her main vision is that Jacqueline…
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Masterpieces of the Kunsthalle Bremen: From Delacroix to Beckmann, an extraordinary selection from the holdings of the Kunsthalle Bremen which reveals the close ties between German art and French art in the 19th and 20th centuries. In addition to the lively dialogue between two parallel artistic streams which changed the way modern art was viewed, the exhibition also reflects the unique history and artistic discourse of this museum in a survey that starts with Romanticism and then dips into Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, the artists’ colony of Worpswede, and German Expressionism. The Kunsthalle Bremen was founded in…
As September enters its final week, we’ve officially entered autumn. Yes; it’s finally time for hot drinks, cosy evenings and, you guessed it; a total rehaul of your home and fashion accessories. During autumn, more than most other seasons, gets us excited from an accessory point of view. As the weather changes, we switch to hats, autumn coats, and even scarves if it’s cold enough. At home, too, the atmosphere changes from summer chic to something a whole lot more hygge. To make sure you’re as efficient as possible when searching for autumn accessories this year, it’s first worth considering…
Team England has appointed Mark England OBE as Chef de Mission to lead the team to the next Commonwealth Games in Birmingham in 2022. Mark is Team GB’s Chef de Mission for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and brings a wealth of experience to the role, having led the British team through the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, where they finished second to Team USA in the medal table, collecting gold medals across a greater range of sports than any other nation. Mark was appointed Chef de Mission of Team GB in 2014 and his first major event leading the team…
The Top 10 entries have been shortlisted for the first Robert Walters UK Young Artist of the Year Award. The 10 shortlisted artists will have the honour of having their work displayed at the prestigious Saatchi Gallery in London on Monday 7 October 2019, where the overall winner of the £10,000 cash prize will be announced at a VIP awards evening. The runner up will receive a cash prize of £5,000 to go towards the development of the artists’ future career in the industry. The award – the most significant cash reward for young artists – set out to discover…