Constance Ayrton

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  Marie Antoinette Style at the V&A

  ★★★★★

  Marie Antoinette is a name already freighted with imagery: frothing...

  Constance Ayrton 18th September 2025
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  Live music

  BBC Proms 2025: The Last Night of the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall

  ★★★★★
  Constance Ayrton 14th September 2025
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  Mona Hatoum Encounters: Giacometti at the Barbican

  ★★★★★

  Who doesn’t know the spindly figures of Giacometti?...

  Constance Ayrton 3rd September 2025
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  Millet: Life on the Land at the National Gallery

  ★★★★★

  There’s something comforting about a small exhibition....

  Constance Ayrton 6th August 2025
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  Theatre

  Inter Alia at the National Theatre

  ★★★★★

  This year has felt like a cultural reckoning, confronting us with the...

  Constance Ayrton 24th July 2025
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  BBC Proms 2025: The Great American Songbook and Beyond with Samara Joy

  ★★★★★

  When Samara Joy announced that she would be...

  Constance Ayrton 20th July 2025
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  Theatre

  The Estate at the National Theatre

  ★★★★★

  Inheritance, with its tangled webs of loyalty, betrayal, greed and...

  Constance Ayrton 18th July 2025
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  Abstract Erotic at the Courtauld

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  In 1966, the critic and curator Lucy Lippard staged her first exhibition, a...

  Constance Ayrton 20th June 2025
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  Medea at the Coronet Theatre

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  The Coronet Theatre in Notting Hill feels less like a venue and more like a...

  Constance Ayrton 19th June 2025
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  Edward Burra and Ithell Colquhoun at Tate Britain

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  Tate Britain’s decision to pair Edward Burra and Ithell...

  Constance Ayrton 19th June 2025