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Hannah Dawson: Not Just a Pretty Face

2013-05-24T06:25:07Z

It is painful enough for a woman to know how to think about her body. Here's culture, screaming at us on the one hand to be sexy, and on the other not to be sluts. And here's nature, permeating social interaction with both desire and revulsion.

Read more: Howthelightgetsin, HowTheLightGetsIn Festival, Chess, Body Confidence, Body Image, UK Culture, UK Media, UK Lifestyle, UK Lifestyle News

Stephen M. Baker: Delia Got It Wrong: I Am a Master Chef

2013-05-24T09:53:13Z

Last week, cooking legend Delia Smith made some rather bold claims in the Radio Times; suggesting that people can't cook anymore and that TV shows such as MasterChef are intimidating, rather than inspirational. As an amateur home cook, food lover and cookery show watcher, I beg to differ.

Read more: Cookery, Food, Delia Smith, Masterchef, Reality TV, Nutrition, Cookbooks, UK-Tv, UK-Culture, Celebrity Chef, UK Lifestyle News

Karen Ruimy: We Are All Flying Birds - An Homage to the Art of Alexander Calder

2013-05-24T06:40:50Z

Calder sees us and represents us struggling with gravity - the gravity of the body, of the world around us. We are all trying to fit into our days all the components that define us or often that we want to be defined by.

Read more: London, Conceptual Art, Modern Art, Alexander Calder, Mobiles, Pace Gallery, UK-Art, UK Culture, Art Galleries, UK News

Robert Peake: An Open Letter to Dispossessed Poets

2013-05-21T14:16:14Z

The truth is, the modern world we live in does not appreciate poetry. Not like it ought to, not like you and I do. We get it. We eagerly await that new journal or book of poems, smuggle it like contraband into our grey morning commute.

Read more: Salt Publishing, UK Poetry, Emily Dickinson, John Keats, Poetry, Poets, UK Culture, UK Entertainment News

Shrimpy Balfour: The London Farmer's Market: v. 2.0

2013-05-23T07:07:10Z

Something wonderfully and brilliantly provincial is happening in force right now in London: the Saturday market is back. Communities across the capital are ditching their local supermarkets, meeting likeminded neighbours and indulging in a lazy cup of freshly brewed coffee while they're at it.

Read more: Healthy Eating, Street Food, Supermarkets, Markets, Entrepreneurs, Seasonal Food, Kerb Food, Farmers Markets, Nutrition, Food, Diet, UK Culture, UK Lifestyle News

50 Common Misquotations

2013-05-23T06:56:02Z

Trivia question: who uttered the line "Do you feel lucky, punk?"

That's right: nobody! Because Clint Eastwood, in 'Dirty Harry', actually says: "A...

Read more: Quotes, Pics & Giggles, UK Viral Videos, Famous Sayings, Quotations, Famous Quotes, UK Culture, Misquotes, Misquotations, Video, UK Comedy News

Polly Courtney: Book Covers: How Gender Is Not the Only Issue

2013-05-23T04:01:09Z

The real issue is that publishers make some terrible assumptions about what men and women like to read (or ought to read). In an attempt to capitalise on the dwindling 'mass market' they have carved the reading population up by demographic and crudely assumed that each 'segment' is a homogenous group with similar tastes.

Read more: Book Covers, Stereotypes, #CoverFlip, Gendered Books, Books, Sexism, Fiction, Young Adult, Teen Fiction, UK Books, UK Culture, UK Arts, UK Lifestyle News

Planet Ivy: Why Does Everyone Suddenly Hate Baz Luhrmann?

2013-05-22T19:00:00Z

It's really quite sad if you think about it; not so long ago, Baz Luhrmann was the darling of Hollywood, a breath of fresh air in an increasingly formulaic industry. Audiences aren't so easily distracted these days by shiny colours and slick cinematography. More and more, they crave inner beauty over outer beauty. And perhaps it is that Baz Luhrmann hasn't quite realised this yet.

Read more: Baz Luhrmann, The Great Gatsby, Hollywood, Cinema, UK Film, Romeo and Juliet, UK Culture, UK Entertainment News

VENN DIAGRAM: Why Marcel Proust Is The Tories' Worst Nightmare

2013-05-22T11:00:05Z

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Read more: Spoofs, EU Referendum, Tories, Ukip, Funny Pictures, Conservatives, UK Conservative Party, Swivel-Eyed Loons, Pics & Giggles, Mad-Swivel-Eyed-Loons, Eu, Venn Diagrams, UK Culture, Gay Marriage, Tory Party, UK Comedy News

Roisin Curran: Malta, Get There Before Everyone Else Does

2013-05-21T13:19:21Z

Whether you come for the culture, the shopping, the parties or even just the weather, you won't return home unsatisfied.The surprising aspects of Maltese life will have you in their hooks from the word go, just give the unique Island a chance - before everyone else discovers what its capable of.

Read more: Summer Holidays, Mediterranean, Maltese, Erasmus, Malta, Nightlife, Culture, UK-Travel, Paceville, Backpacking, Beaches, Travel, Mdina, UK Universities & Education News

Orlando Seale: Time Travel and HowTheLightGetsIn

2013-05-21T19:00:00Z

Time travel was invented for festivals like How The Light Gets In (HTLGI). It's a maddeningly exciting place. Maddening because there's so much to see, hear, and taste, more than even the greediest of festival-goers could swallow, more than it seems possible to fit into one festival.

Read more: Howthelightgetsin, Time Travel, Music, HowTheLightGetsIn Festival, UK Festivals, UK Music, UK Culture, UK Entertainment News

Robert McNamee: The Marginalized Alexander Pope

2013-05-21T11:51:53Z

Spring 2013 marks two significant anniversaries for Alexander Pope, perhaps the most representative and alien English poet of the 18th Century.

Read more: Literature, Alexander Pope, Voltaire, Windsor Forest, Disease, Catholic, Anniversary, Marginalized, History, UK Books, UK Culture, UK Entertainment News

Jenni Calder: Art of Wisdom or Arts of Wisdom?

2013-05-20T10:31:05Z

Can we separate thinking from being? I'd suggest that thinking, rational and irrational, is part of being, that thinking implies language, and that language is a primary instrument for giving expression to sensation and experience.

Read more: Howthelightgetsin, Wisdom, HowTheLightGetsIn Festival, Club of Rome, Festivals, Philosophy, Jenni Calder, UK Culture, UK Entertainment News

Tom Ward: The Books I Love and How They've Shaped Me

2013-05-20T10:03:59Z

University introduced me to writers I would never have read of my own accord. Sam Selvon, Angela Carter, Ballard etc etc. By now I was actively searching out writers. I loved Buk, so wanted to read Fante and Celine. McCarthy was a hero and Patrick DeWitt filled the gap that McCarthy's long-awaited next novel is sure to fill.

Read more: Literature, Charles Bukowski, Writing, Lord of the Flies, Roald Dahl, A Departure, Harry Potter, Norman Mailer, Books, UK Books, UK Culture, UK Arts, UK Entertainment News

Bianca Brigitte Bonomi: John Walter

2013-05-19T17:18:42Z

Vitrine Bermondsey Street's latest exhibition features new paintings by John Walter and encapsulates the ornate, bold and iconoclastic vision of his maximalist aesthetic.

Read more: Art, Art Exhibitions, London, Modern Art, UK Culture, Art Review, UK Arts, UK Entertainment News

Sara Bran: Author Ben Hatch: Cheese, Marriage and Qwerty Keyboards

2013-05-21T07:15:49Z

Ben is a master of the kind of acute observation of family life that has you pondering the deeper significance of the type of breakfast cereal your spouse prefers.

Read more: Creativity, Authors, Ben Hatch, Creative Writing, Humour, Writing, Road to Rouen, Books, UK Books, UK Culture, UK Entertainment News

John Worne: UK Culture Means Business

2013-05-20T19:00:00Z

But in these austere times she also asked for better evidence of the value of culture. In short, her point was that if we want UK Government to continue investing in culture - as public spending gets the squeeze - we in the cultural industries need to demonstrate a return on that investment

Read more: British Council, Soft Power, UK Business, UK World, UK Culture, UK Film, UK Books, UK Arts, UK News

Bianca Brigitte Bonomi: The Future in an Instant

2013-05-19T16:40:27Z

A recent exhibition of what organisers have termed the University of the Arts London's 'brightest and best students' has provided a refreshing and necessary glimpse into some of the artists likely to play a significant role in the future of British art.

Read more: University Arts London, Artists, Four Corners Gallery, Art Exhibitions, Student Life, Art Reviews, UK Culture, UK Arts, UK Universities & Education News

Ben Gregor: How To Make Your Kid A Star

2013-05-20T19:00:00Z

So your kid likes acting and singing and wants to be famous? You want them to be the next Harry Potter? Justin Bieber? Well, as a film director I have to say that the first thing you need to do is... STOP!

Read more: Ben Gregor, Ukfilm, All Stars, Theatre Groups, Young Talent, Modern Parenting, UK Culture, Child Care, UK-Tv, UK Celebrity, UK Entertainment News

Dr Michael Petry: Margaret Harrison's 'On Reflection' and George Bellows: 'Modern American Life'

2013-05-20T07:08:01Z

The gentle line of her candy coloured watercolours clash against the harshness of her themes to great effect. She says "The images, which reflect our cultures of masculinity and femininity collide with transgendered realities"...

Read more: Margaret Harrison, George Bellows, Thomas Eakins, Payne Shurvell, Michael Petry, London Exhibitions, Royal Academy of Arts, On Reflection, Arts Review, UK Culture, UK Arts, UK Entertainment News

Kate Lawson: Somerset House Presents - Isabella Blow: Fashion Galore!

2013-05-20T06:06:21Z

The exhibition of all exhibitions (in my humble opinion) is coming to Somerset House this autumn, in a celebration of the work of the late great Isabella Blow - the enigmatic fashion editor, consultant, muse, nurturer of young fashion talent and style icon.

Read more: Exhibition, Somerset House, London, Stylist, Isabella Blow, Fashion Writer, Eccentric Couture, Daphne Guinness, Designers, Fashion Icon, Muse, UK-Art, UK-Culture, UK Style News

Do These Identical Twins Look The Same To You?

2013-05-20T05:34:51Z

While many of us may struggle to tell identical twins apart (growing up in the nineties I instantly think of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen or Tia and Tam...

Read more: Photography, Identical Twins, Twins, Culture, Video, UK Lifestyle News

'Queen' Knights Sick 10-Year-Old For 'Dying Wish'

2013-05-20T06:46:09Z

Dame Helen Mirren granted the dying wish of a poorly ten-year-old boy - by dressing up as the Queen and having him round for tea.

Brave Oliver Burt...

Read more: Cancer, UK News, Down's Syndrome, UK Culture, Helen Mirren the Audience, Royal Family, The Queen, Helen Mirren, UK News

Sumeet Grover: Genesis by Sebastião Salgado: Exhibition Review

2013-05-19T11:36:19Z

Genesis, an unfathomable eight-year long work, that took the Brazilian documentary photographer Sebastião Salgado to 32 countries, explores the earth in the way it must have originated and the way its vast undiscovered stretches have remained untouched

Read more: Sebastião Salgado, National History Museum, UK Culture, Art Reviews, Art Exhibitions, Art, UK Arts, UK Entertainment News

Ana Tzarev: Love Alive in Art: The Passion of Lovers

2013-05-18T12:45:43Z

My Lovers sculpture emerged as a tribute to the transforming power of Love. I was moved to capture Love as a timeless and elemental force, the eternal pull of a tide drawing two people together.

Read more: Ana Tzarev, Art, Representations of Love, Passion, Inspiration, Myths, Love, UK Art, UK Culture, UK Arts, UK Entertainment News