I first came across the work of Delhi born artist Dayanita Singh in an exhibition and book, Myself Mona Ahmed (2001), a photo-essay about an aging eunuch transsexual (hijra) living in a graveyard in Old Delhi. In this extraordinary body of work â the book contains various different kinds of text alongside the photographs) â one sensed not only compassion, but a collaboration between the person in front of the camera, and the one looking through the lens.
Year 2013
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • poetry, Year 2013 •
* This issue of London Grip features new poems by: *Murray Bodo *Ian House *Louise Warren *David Cooke *Benjamin Smith *Kerrin P Sharpe *Stephen Claughton *Martyn Crucefix *Sue Rose *Carol DeVaughn *Stephen Oliver *Merryn Williams *Sarah Glaz *Brian Docherty * Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya *Graham Burchell *Nancy Mattson *John Snelling *Vaughan Rapatahana *Kate Foley *Martin Burke *Robert […]
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, history, poetry reviews, Year 2013 • Tags: books, history, poetry •
Paul McLoughlin reviews a collection set in the 1930s which recreates a lost age that was both golden and flawed.
by Ruth Rosengarten • art, exhibitions, installations, sculpture, Year 2013 • Tags: Daniel Silver, London, matter, new materialism, Ruth Rosengarten, sculpture, tactile, visual •
It is always interesting to pinpoint the moment when one becomes conscious of a change of mood or orientation in contemporary artistic practices. Something has emerged that offers quite a different tonic. This âsomethingâ might be termed âmindful matterâ: it is materialism with a twist, or with a new twist.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, Year 2013 •
Thomas Ovans confronts some radical views expressed in radical verse in Steve Elyâs latest collection
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, Year 2013 •
Leah Fritz warms to Norbert Hirschhornâs fresh poetic treatment of Jewish traditional songs
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, Year 2013 •
Norbert Hirschhorn detects a Dali-esque streak in David Shookâs first collection
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • poetry, Year 2013 •
* This issue of London Grip New Poetry features poems by: *Rodney Wood *F.M.Brown *Rik Wilkinson *Sissy Buckles *Robert Etty *Antony Johae *Ruth Bidgood *Elizabeth Smither *Elizabeth Barrett *Sonam Chhoki *Deborah Tyler-Bennett *Shadwell Smith *Jonathan Taylor *Bruce Christianson *Robert Peake *Robert Nisbet *Pam Job
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, history, poetry reviews, politics, society, Year 2013 •
Norbert Hirschhorn reflects on a poetry and prose memoir that gives an inside view of the National Health Service at a time when it may be about to change forever.
by Ruth Rosengarten • art, exhibitions, Year 2013 • Tags: art, exhibitions, Hayward Gallery, Japan, outsider art, Ruth Rosengarten, Wellcome collection •
The Alternative Guide to the Universe, Hayward Gallery, 11 June â 26 August 2013. Souzu â Outsider Art from Japan, Wellcome Collection, 28 March â 30 June 2013.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, Year 2013 •
In her latest collection, Waiting for Bluebeard, Helen Ivory invites her readers into a world where fantasy can sometimes become disturbingly real.
by Barbara Lewis • art, exhibitions, painting, Year 2013 • Tags: art, art history, art nouveau, Barbara Lewis, exhibitions, museums, painting, sculpture •
In Brussels, art nouveau found its most complete expression in the architecture of Victor Horta. Now the Brusselsâ Musees Royaux des Beaux Arts has devoted a huge new âFin-de-Siecleâ section, a museum in itself, to the artistic context in which he thrived.