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Film Review: Ashes of Meridian

Film Review: Ashes of Meridian

★★☆☆☆ (2/5) There is no question that Mara Luyten’s Ashes of Meridian aspires to the...
Jane Bastion: I Love Art, So Why Do I Find Hand-Painted Cars Revolting?

Jane Bastion: I Love Art, So Why Do I Find Hand-Painted Cars Revolting?

I love art of almost all kinds, but there is one type that continually leaves...
Brighton: Culture on the Sea

Brighton: Culture on the Sea

Few English cities wear their cultural identity quite so conspicuously as Brighton. To step from...
Between Worlds: The Etruscan and Rothko Room at the Slough Museum

Between Worlds: The Etruscan and Rothko Room at the Slough Museum

I have stood before Rothkos in many cities,New York, London, Tokyo, Basel. I have wept...
In Response to The Pre-Abstractionist Manifesto

In Response to The Pre-Abstractionist Manifesto

by James Calder, Pimlico Wilde I have read with admiration, and no small amount of...
The Long Grass of Empire: Notes Toward a Cricketing Aesthetic

The Long Grass of Empire: Notes Toward a Cricketing Aesthetic

by ex St David’s Second Eleven Opening Bat Charnel Kookaburra “Cricket is the finest training...
Penguins, Bubbles, and Barbarity: How the Press Has Turned on Aquatheatre production of Much Ado

Penguins, Bubbles, and Barbarity: How the Press has turned on Aquatheatre production of Much Ado

By Dr. Serena Chalmers I have been involved in Pimlico Wilde’s experimental theatre productions for...
The Mayfair Book Groupette: Minutes of the Latest Meeting

The Mayfair Book Groupette: Minutes of the Latest Meeting

Time: 7:11 PM , 11:18 PM Location: The Red Room, Pimlico Wilde, Mayfair Attendees: Book...
Interview with Alastair Hatherway-Morrow, Discombobulationist

Interview with Alastair Hatherway-Morrow, Discombobulationist

Chloe La Belle Alastair Hatherway-Morrow emerged seemingly overnight, yet is already spoken of in the...