Despite its success with audiences after it opened on Broadway in 2005, the adaptation of Alice Walker’s novel The Color Purple into a musical play was never going to garner the most effusive of welcomes… Celebrating the right to be heard: ‘The Color Purple – The Musical’ premieres in London
Over the years, what has repeatedly drawn me to L. S. Lowry’s paintings is the enigmatic (and utterly poetic) fascination with English urban and industrial landscapes and the ways in which they are silently populated… The silent lives of the industrial city: ‘Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life’ at Tate Britain
On a recent visit to Tunisia to attend Fashion Week Tunis, I was very fortunate to be invited to the home of French designer Philippe Xerri and his partner Martial Viahero. The stunning residence, located… The Most Beautiful Homes in the World: Palais Rock the Kasbah, Tunisia, by Philippe Xerri
An exhibition of the work of influential photographer Erwin Blumenfeld will be unveiled in London on 23 May at Somerset House. ‘Blumenfeld Studio: New York, 1941 – 1960’ celebrates Blumenfeld’s latter work produced in his… Seeing Eye to I: Erwin Blumenfeld’s Photography Celebrated in Exhibition
The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has unveiled ‘Punk: Chaos to Couture’, an exhibition that focuses on the impact of the Punk movement on fashion from its heyday in… ‘Punk: Chaos to Couture’ Exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Somerset House has announced that it will be displaying an exhibition celebrating the life and wardrobe of the late British patron of fashion and art, Isabella Blow. Curated by Alistair O’Neill with Shonagh Marshall, and… Isabella Blow to Be Celebrated in London Exhibition
The Lenbachhaus Museum in Munich, Germany, is reopening today after a major refurbishment by architects Foster + Partners that took four years and cost 63.3 million Euros. Built in 1891 as a studio and villa… Restored Lenbachhaus Museum Opens Today
The International Centre for Lace and Fashion in Calais, France, is displaying an exhibition on the work of Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen between 15 June and 31 December 2013. The exhibition will explore… Iris van Herpen Exhibition at the International Centre for Lace and Fashion
London College of Fashion’s Fashion Space Gallery is currently displaying the exhibition Layer by Layer, the first of a two-part series which explores the role that digital print has had in fashion in recent years,… Constructing Fashion and Design Layer by Layer
The Royal Academy of Arts in London is currently displaying the exhibition George Bellows (1882-1925): Modern American Life, the first retrospective of works by American realist painter George Bellows to be held in the UK.… Remembering the Modern American City: George Bellows at the Royal Academy of Arts