A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes : an exhibition exploring new femininity and story telling in boundary-pushing fashion

  A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes investigates symbols of womanhood and challenges conventional notions of beauty with experimental gowns, headpieces, and jewelry by boundary-pushing fashion designers and artists including Alexander McQueen, Vivienne Westwood, Chromat, Studio Roosegaarde, Gypsy Sport, Maïmouna Guerresi, and Iris van Herpen. The exhibition features more than 100 articles of fashion, photography, and … Continue reading

A Quiet Passion

For his latest cinematic treat the veteran British auteur Terence Davies has written and directed a visually stunning period-drama biopic on the great American poet Emily Dickinson. Born into a prominent Massachusetts family in 1830, but Davies starts his story when as a rather troublesome young woman, Emily (Emma Bell) is cutting short her studies at Mount … Continue reading

A reason for all gay men to look forward to Christmas

  Looking for videos to put a much needed smile on our faces, we came across this.  It is a REAL TV advertisement that screened at Christmas time on British TV.. It is for Robert Dyas  a UK hardware retailer founded in London in 1872. It sells a range of housewares, small electrical appliances, gardening … Continue reading

A Rehearsed Reading of Peter Shaffer’s Tony Award Winning LETTICE & LOVAGE in aid of Alzheimer’s Research UK.

    If you’re trying to think of the most quintessentially English theatre evening possible, then look no further than last night’s performance of Peter Shaffer’s 1987 play Lettice and Lovage. Acting legends Maureen Lipman, Anne Reid and Tom Conti took to the stage at the Ambassador’s Theatre in London’s West End for a one-night … Continue reading

A Retrospective of Michael Leonard’s Nudes

There is a portrait of HM The Queen from 1986 by the British artist Michael Leonard that hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in London.  Naturally Her Majesty is fully clothed which is not surprising apart from the fact that 85 year old Leonard is also very famous for his nude drawings and paintings of … Continue reading

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