A woman, photographed from behind, is moving forward with intent through rocky terrain towards open, inhospitable land. Ahead of her lies the outline of bare-looking, small mountains.   Sean Sheehan   Her long dark hair hangs down loosely to below the waist and her wide skirt may be white but […]

Not much has been written about one of Argentina’s most striking examples of 20th century architecture. Its creator was an architect who designed the underground necropolis of the Sixth Pantheon in the Chacarita Cemetery. A book on this work has recently been published in English.   Zac Liew   It […]

The play “Mnemonic” first appeared on the stage in 1999, quickly establishing itself as a classic, and it has been reactivated and ‘reimagined’ for a new production at  the National Theatre in London.   Sean Sheehan   The drama   does not begin with the lights going out but with an […]

The Roman emperor Nero is said to have played the fiddle while the city burned down. Probably apocryphal but it serves as an image of irresponsibility in the face of a disaster.   Sean Sheehan   A real-life equivalent is a tourist attempting to grab a piece of melted iceberg […]

London’s Southbank is one of the city’s locations not to be missed on sunny days or balmy evenings, especially the pedestrianized stretch between Waterloo Bridge and Blackfriars Bridge.   Sean Sheehan   The views up or down the Thames from either of these bridges are memorable and not to be […]