2025
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NETFLIX’s shi–y Christmas Gift : cancelling the fab queer series BOOTS
It’s probably just a coincidence (!) but the very first decision/statement from Netflix that affects the queer community since the much heralded mammoth takeover/merge, it is very negative. Depressingly so. Even though the well-reviewed Boots (90% on Rotten Tomatoes from both critics and viewers) delivered respectable ratings and made noise in popular culture, IT IS…
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There is NO Queen like an Old (Silent) Queen
Erich von Stroheim’s epic unfinished swan song QUEEN KELLY, now has a new digital reconstruction and 4K restoration starring Gloria Swanson is the perfect New Year Gift for passionate vintage cinema enthusiasts. Recognised as von Stroheim’s decadent late-silent masterpiece and epic unfinished swan song, it pulls no punches. Filmed in 1929, the story opens in…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ‘Dirty Looks: Desire and Decay in Fashion’ at London’s Barbican Art Gallery
Scrolling through TikTok or Instagram, or walking down London’s Sloane or Bond Streets, you could be forgiven for thinking designer fashion was all about pristine, very smart looks. Fashion, however, has had a dark, distressed side for decades.Dirty Looks: Desire and Decay in Fashion, the first fashion exhibition at London’s excellent Barbican Art Gallery…
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David Hockney: Some Very, Very, Very New Paintings Not Yet Shown in Paris @ Annely juda Fine Art, London
London’s Serpentine Gallery is mounting a show of David Hockney next Spring. We have been told to expect a bumper exhibition of works, in Hockney’s characteristically vivid, eye-grabbing, high-saturation images (created mostly on an iPad). BUT IF YOU CANNOT WAIT UNTIL THEN….. Annely Juda Fine Art is having inaugural exhibition at the gallery’s new space…
