Amy Lineham is a UCL medical student, photographer, and activist – of a kind. At the start of this year, she spent six weeks in France volunteering in refugee camps in Calais and then Paris’s newly opened Port de la Chapelle camp where the...
Author - Nicholas Pan
Nicholas Pan
King’s College professor calls LGBT Activists “Gaystapo”
A mental health lecture at King’s College London has called LGBTQ activists the “Gaystapo” and “sanctimonious petty Napoleons”, in a row over a portrait. Dr Niall McCrae made the comments in an recent article co-written with Reverend Jules Gomes for...
The EY Exhibition: Wifredo Lam at Tate Modern
“I could act as a Trojan horse that would spew forth hallucinating figures with the power to surprise,” Wifredo Lam said looking back on his career… “To disturb the dreams of the exploiters, a true picture has the power to set the...
UCL presents Dyskolos: Kindness Amidst Cruelty
The green idyll a resplendent astro-turf and we begin in Attica…. UCL’s Classical Drama Society takes on Menander’s comedy in this rendering of Dyskolos, (translated as The Grouch, The Misanthrope). Knemon, ‘the grouch’ (Dominic...
Rams: Darkly Comic Filial Bonding
Like another quiet, slowly-placed arthouse film featuring goats, 2011’s Le Quattro Volte, Grimur Hakonarson’s Rams, the Un Certain Regard winner at Cannes last year, is hard to describe in a way that doesn’t sound either hugely off...
Artist and Empire - Tate Britain
The ambitious collection Artist and Empire comes at a curious time, as it is perhaps the first large-scale show made in response to the British Empire in the early twenty-first century. The great reactionary Edmund Burke recognised something true of...