Roger Kastel: the artist behind the iconic ‘Jaws’ poster
The man behind the iconic shark.
Author: Poppy Burton Archives: 11/2023
Madness – ‘Theatre of the Absurd Presents C’est La Vie’ album review: Madness at their sharpest
Politically charged and catchy as ever.
Stuart Brisley: the man who bathed in maggots for two weeks
Maggots, black water, and rotting offal.
How Vanessa Bell stepped out of Virginia Woolf’s shadow
Just as radical as her sister, but never as celebrated.
The crime novelist who tried to prove that Jack the Ripper was painter Walter Sickert
“This painter never painted anything he had not seen.”
‘Blood Mirror’: the powerful piece at the intersection of art, science, and homophobia
“Homophobia so deep that it infected science itself.”
Mary Reid Kelley: Reanimating wartime history through visual art
“It was called ‘Camel Toe’, which is a play of course, on the Sopwith Camel.”
What was the issue between Joni Mitchell and John Lennon?
“I have controversial opinions about him.”
Sargy Mann: the man who painted his blindness
“I had to learn again to see the world and to try to paint it.”