London
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David Hockney plus The Bright Young Things
Art like Life will just go on, and in the case of these two excellent new Exhibits at the National Portrait Galley in London they should be still there when we stop self-quarantining. Sir David Hockney is probably the greatest living queer artist in the world. At the age of 82 he is still…
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Night Flowers: From Avant-drag to Extreme Haute Couture.
Celebrated photographer and Soho habitué DAMIEN FROST has been capturing the undisputed stars of the London’s alternative drag scene for some years. His stunning photographers of all those club ‘kids’ were the subject of his book Night Flowers: From Avant-drag to Extreme Haute Couture. It featured over 300 portraits of the loose-knit community of drag…
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Queerguru’s Jonathan Kemp reviews SALOME ‘full of sexual energy & spectacular dancing
Salomé ☆☆☆☆☆ EDIFICE Dance Theatre The Place, London Salomé is the biblical gift that just keeps giving, from Wilde’s scandalously decadent take on it and the Aubrey Beardsley drawings it inspired, to the curate’s egg of Ken Russell’s film version. Last year, I reviewed for Queerguru a production that cast Salomé as a pretty…
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Tales From The Shadows : Jonathan Kemp reviews an Oscar Wilde Puppet Show
Wild(e) Tales: Tales From the Shadows ☆☆☆ Vault Festival, Waterloo It’s no secret that I worship and adore Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde, so it was with a certain amount of trepidation that I took my seat for this shadow puppet show of some of his children’s stories, originally written for his two sons, Cyril…
