Mary Beard delivers Alice Bacon Lecture
The annual Alice Bacon lecture, celebrating the achievements of inspiring women, resumed post-covid at the University of Leeds this autumn....
Art
Just Stop Oil: Eco-Warriors or Artists of Destruction?
Van Gogh’s sunflowers smeared with soup, King Charles III’s waxwork covered in cake. It seems that climate activist group Just...
Claye Bowler’s Trans Experience: ‘Owned and Shown’
Trans art has been developing and thriving in the shadows of the wider art community for decades. Names such as...
A Long History of activism, poetry, and checking his watch…: Linton Kwesi Johnson in Conversation with Gary Younge at Opera North’s Howard Assembly Room
I was delighted to be able to go and see Linton Kwesi Johnson (LKJ), London's renowned Jamaican poet, activist, and...
Art or arson? Hirst is back with a blazing vengeance
Damien Hirst, connoisseur of controversy and challenge, has posed a new question for us to face with his latest exhibition...
Yorkshire: The UK’s County of Culture
Yorkshire has been (unofficially) announced as the UK’s County of Culture with two of the next three Cities of Culture...
Too Little, Too Late? Sacheen Littlefeather and anti-Indigenous Hollywood
On the 2nd of October, actor and activist Sacheen Littlefeather, the woman at the centre of what is one of...
A Cultural Map of Leeds – Or, where to spread your Freshers Flu
Getting to know a new city is like rummaging through a student fridge: you want to know where the excitement...
Queue-less Entertainment: Arts and Culture this Semester
After a late summer period of precipitously enforced mourning, ranging from prolific tears to #mournhub, is it not time that...
Transience, Not Permanence is Key: ‘Shifting Perspectives’ and ‘Charmaine Watkiss: The Wisdom Tree’ at Leeds Art Gallery
Upon revisiting Leeds for what will be my final year as an undergraduate student, I thought I would give Leeds...