Just Art

Some things are defined by the absence or silence around them. In The Histories by US artist Kerry James Marshall at the Royal Academy, we ...

This film about the Arab Revolt in Palestine in 1936 is unlikely to gain a mass audience, but it very much deserves to be seen. ...

On loops and containers Loops I have recently finished reading the second volume of Solvej Balle’s septology, On the Calculation of Volume(2025). Five volumes have ...

So what does it all mean – Grayson Perry’s Delusions of Grandeur at the Wallace Collection in London? On one hand, it proclaims that we ...

Erling Kagge is a Norwegian explorer, publisher and author, famous as the first explorer to conquer the three poles on foot: the North and South ...

(This follows on from the post on the book Crow) Ted Hughes was maybe the greatest English poet of his generation. But when he described ...

The 1960s and 70s were a time of political and social upheaval in Britain. Under the governments of Harold Wilson, it seemed that power was ...

“The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction…” “Sooner murder an infant in its cradle/ Than nurse unacted desires…” What are we ...

When I was invited to join the editorial team of “Just Beauty”, I had only recently seen the film “Conclave”, based on the Robert Harris ...

I have just started to reread Jonathan Livingstone Seagull (Bach, 1970). Like many of my generation I read it when it was first published and ...

Can we get our young men to kneel and look through the Smokehole? ‘We thought we had Pentecost but find ourselves in Babel.’ Dr. Martin ...

Note: This review contains spoilers. if you haven’t watched ‘Adolescence’, I strongly recommend you do. Very few cultural offerings hit you with a hammer blow ...

Given the quotations from Keats in “Lamia”, and the featuring of “Ode on a Grecian Urn” on this Just Beauty blog platform, it seems appropriate ...