Bites
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Amelia Barratt at CORPUS Gallery
Installation view of Marina, by Amelia Barratt. Courtesy of the artist and CORPUS, Cambridge. Photography: Stephen James Amelia Barratt’s ‘Marina’ is the fourth exhibition to take place in CORPUS gallery in Cambridge, a white cube space for contemporary art on King’s Street which opened last year. Barratt (b.1989) is a Glasgow-based artist who works across painting,…
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All Penetration, No Foreplay: Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights”
Artwork by Tijana Moraca (2023) A set of double marks, signed with hands raised and fingers twitching; “Wuthering Heights”, spoken with derision. This is how I’ve been introducing Emerald Fennell’s latest film to friends. My use of air quotes is not only a poor attempt at physical comedy but a direct riff on Fennell’s own…
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Hamnet: A Sea of Troubles
Artwork by Guido Maza (2026) Despite robust fan-fare and pre-emptive award ceremony capture, Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet seems now to be attracting a puzzling yet steady stream of online ire. The range of circumspectly approving discourse and acumen has given way to something more uneasy and polemical. To be sure, this movie has at made its…
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Technicolour Victoriana: Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein
Artwork by Josse Mansilla (2025) Del Toro’s reimagining of Mary Shelley’s modern myth begins by going back to its source material. A Danish ship is stuck in the Arctic Circle on an expedition to the North Pole. The injured Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac) is found near-dead on the ice, pursued by the Creature (Jacob Elordi),…
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Who’s Afraid of Judith Butler?
Carmen Vintro on Judith Butler: Who’s Afraid of Gender? at the Southbank Centre, in conversation with Ash Sarkar.
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Whimsy and Wonder
Kiana Rezakhanlou on Daniel McKay’s Whimwondery: An Alphabetarium of Useful Nonsense Inventions
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Posing on a Penis: Jake Wood at the Fitz
Ollie Jakes on Jake Wood, bodybuilding, and performance art
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The Camera 