Culturelle
The Queen: Art and Image
The National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition allows viewers to get to know Elizabeth II a little better; to step back and consider her role over the past 60 years with a critical eye.
Point of View: Is All Reading Good Reading?
Crime fiction and ‘chick lit’ are the must-read genres according to library statistics, so have our literary tastes dumbed down in recent years, or are all books created equal?
Bauhaus – Art As Life
At the Barbican Centre in London, this fascinating retrospective exhibition displays over 400 works of art showing the best of the revolutionary social and artistic design collective.
Running in Heels: Penelope Sacorafou
Running in Heels meets Penelope Sacorafou, the creative mind and entrepreneurial wunderkind behind London-based art, lifestyle and fashion walks provider Fox&Squirrel.
Reader’s Block – Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises
Fancy a holiday but can’t quite face packing a suitcase? Ernest Hemingway’s novel transports us to exotic, dusty Pamplona and sophisticated Paris.
New Music: RIH Recommends
Our columnist shares her latest finds for your aural pleasure. Psych-pop, old school garage, and summery, sunshiny sounds; there are tunes a-plenty for all tastes…
My Book List
Looking for a book? From captivating letter exchanges and coming-of-age novels to outsider classics, one Running in Heels writer rounds up their must-read novels of the moment.
Wonder Woman: Laura Marling
At just 21, acclaimed folk musician and Mercury prizewinner Laura Marling has fashioned her own distinctive musical style with probing lyrics and ethereal melodies.
The Commuter Classics: An Anthology – Simone Weil
Weil handles humanity and the soul with a careful and attentive love. Everyone, she writes, needs poetry as they need bread. An inspiring read.
The Royal Opera House Cinema: Romeo and Juliet
Thanks to Kenneth MacMillan’s fluid choreography, Romeo and Juliet’s love story is as enchanting and sad in a live streaming as it is in an actual performance.
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