the UCL IAS Review
HELENE SCHULZE
The exhibition presents the outcomes of an intercultural botanical collaboration in eighteenth century Canton, focusing especially on the native artists and mediators, Mak Sau 麥秀 and Whang At Tong 黃遏東.
PATRICK BRAY
The towering figure of intellectual and political life in much of nineteenth century France, Victor Hugo, had yet another, lesser known talent: drawing.
MARTHE LISSON
Zvakazarurwa means ‘revelations,’ a word whose meaning offers a prism of associations and connections within Portia Zvavahera’s work and practice.
JAGJEET LALLY
From a state of Emergency to the first nuclear tests, 1975 to 1998 marked a period of significant change in India that is presented through the lens of modern and contemporary Indian artists.
ANA SÁEZ-HIDALGO
An (online) exhibition presents the life of Cardinal Reginald Pole by way of his personal bibliophilia and shines a light on the lesser-known parts of his life.
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.
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.
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 …