The Soviet textile artist Anna Andreeva (1917-2008) worked at the Red Rose silk factory in Moscow from the 1940s to the 1980s. Inspired by the Russian avant-garde, primarily the Constructionist movement, her work broke down simplistic divisions between high art and craft. Sean Sheehan The Constructivist movement, taking […]
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Dinner time
Many cookbooks are underused because sections in them – like starters/ hors d’oeuvre, desserts – tend to be given short shrift by those with busy lives and more in need of good ideas for an evening meal than culinary creations that might impress visitors in our home. Sean Sheehan […]
Hybrid voices: art and belonging in multicultural London
The result is hybrid, something different, other; not identical to the originary cultures from the ‘homeland’, and not wholly of British either. I met her on a Friday night. She was helping at a youth project in inner London, to which she had been invited by a mutual friend who […]
Hidden histories of South America
The title of this book, “Small earthquakes”, comes from the probably apocryphal story about the title that won a competition, among bored sub-editors on the Times, for the dullest newspaper headline that would make it into print: it was won with ‘Small Earthquake in Chile. Not many dead’. Sean […]
When difference means exclusion and objectification
The idea that people use people is quite common nowadays. It seems acceptable that we are seen or we see others as objects. Mabel Encinas This can be such an everyday idea that it may sound familiar that you can use your colleague to convince your boss or […]
















