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Cheating for Love. Notes on “Notes on camp”
by Federica Tammarazio Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy Pentesilea.org For LGBT History month, we are happy to host art historian Federica Tammarazio to celebrate the anniversary of “Notes on camp” by Susan Sontag. Fifty years ago (fifty-one actually) art critic Susan Sontag published “Notes on camp“, a series of reflections on Camp culture. According…
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Critiquing cultural spaces: an interview with Alice Procter of the Uncomfortable Art Tours
By Alice Procter (@aaprocter) and Mobeen Hussain (@amhuss27) Alice Procter is a historian of material culture based at UCL. She has six years of tour guiding experience at heritage sites and galleries and runs Uncomfortable Art Tours, podcasts and writes under the umbrella of The Exhibitionist. I had the chance to interview you her about her work…
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18. Fragments of Clay Pipes found on the Banks of the River Thames
By Sarah Sheard, Artist, Edinburgh (@sarahofthenorth) I did not like History at school. Maybe it was the way it was taught, but if that were true, I wouldn’t like Art either, and now that is what I do– I am an artist in Edinburgh. I remember visiting the Tate Britain and seeing Mark Dion’s Tate…
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Art in the Time of Coronavirus
By Zara Kesterton (@ZaraKesterton) 15 March 2020: we were beginning to realise just how much of an impact the coronavirus pandemic would have on all our lives. One of my friends messaged a group chat, ‘Now that we aren’t allowed to touch anything ever again does it spell the end of material culture? Is the…
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Egyptian Hajj murals: a centuries old tradition
By Yayha Nurgat (@yahyanurgat) Every year, Muslims from across the world travel to the city of Mecca in order to undertake the Hajj, the fifth and final pillar of Islam. In many rural areas of modern-day Egypt, pilgrims return from Mecca to find the exterior of their home adorned with illustrations of the holy sites…
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