the UCL IAS Review
MAJA FOWKES
A new exhibition at the William Morris Gallery shows that British landscapes are more than bucolic meadows and gently rolling hills. Historically, they have been sites of radical social action and arenas for societal transformation.
TOMASZ JABLONSKI
The Spanish port of Sanlúcar is a crucial landmark in the history of European colonisation. The port was unavoidable for ships arriving in Europe and departing to the Americas. Countless opportunists and colonisers …
REBECCA EMPSON
Public debate around the climate catastrophe has become increasingly fraught, divisive and desperate. The exhibition Dear Earth at the Hayward Gallery offers a fresh approach.
ADRIANA SUÁREZ DELUCCHI
My visit to Cecilia Vicuña’s exhibition Brain Forest Quipu at the Tate Modern was an immersive experience. Although situated in the open plan space of the Turbine Hall, I was pulled into a far more intimate and inward place.
IGOR ROGELJA
Who is to blame when the root cause of a tragedy lies in multiple shortcomings? The latest dramatisation of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry raises troubling questions …
MARTHE LISSON
Despite the instruction at the entrance to the exhibition – Let the Drama Begin at the End – we start at the beginning of William Kentridge’s artistic career. In the 1980s, while acting and directing …