I have a distinct childhood memory, of a scene from a film I saw, where a man is looking at a blue flower, which I remember as a blue rose. Steve Latham The image has stayed with me, throughout my life: a picture disconnected from anything else, anything […]
In Focus
In Focus
On not being a tourist in London
Seeing London is not about going to Madame Tussauds or -goodness, gracious me- taking a selfie outside Buckingham Palace. It is about places that Londoners know the value of, such as the British Museum, Tate Modern and Tate Britain, the National Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum. Sean Sheehan […]
The “Big Male” and the woman as disputed spoils
In the context of a masculinised and patriarchal society such as those that exist in several countries, the social representations that have been constructed over time about the woman and the feminine are evidence of a discourse that proposes and exhibits the relations of domination and submission that we have […]
Libraries of Babel
I love libraries. When I was little, my dad took me, each week, to the local library in our tiny northern industrial town. No doubt, actually quite small, the library seemed huge to me. Steve Latham While he perused the adult shelves, I borrowed books of classic boy’s […]
History and identity from art
At 71 years of age, Alberto Lescay has carried out the majority of his work in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba, his homeland. He has dedicated almost half a century to the world of monumental shapes, paintbrushes and colours. His work can be seen in pieces such […]
















