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One hundred years ago, the creation of art would have taken hours with a paintbrush, or months of putting pen to paper, even years of learning to play an instrument and then later composing a piece of music. Now, we can type Dall-E 2 or Midjourney into a search...
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Making its Broadway debut in NYC in 2003, Wicked became a smash hit and is now the tenth longest running production in Broadway history, soaring past $1 billion in earnings in 2016. Now, more than 2 decades later, Director Jon M. Chu has released the musical that has made...
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Nottingham Contemporary Weekday Cross, Nottingham NG1 2GB With its striking exterior, Nottingham contemporary is a modern art space, just a 3 minute walk from Lace Market tram stop, offering both a gallery and a café. It is home to a variety of modern art, among the likes of sculptures,...
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Sally Rooney debuted her first novel in 2017, when she published ‘Conversations with Friends’, followed closely by the publication of ‘Normal People’ in 2018. Since then, due to the rise of ‘BookTok’, and the production of Normal People as a romantic psychological drama television miniseries, Rooney’s popularity has soared....
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Christy Clark It’s often said that the circumstances in which a book is read define the reader’s reception unalterably. I read a creamy blue miniature copy of The Moonstone, gifted by my mum, sitting on a stone wall in the Lake District last summer. And along with the setting...
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Clara Wodny How is art related to politics? Is it true that “all art is political”? What power does art actually have in a political context? What power does politics have in an artistic context? Does an artist really get to choose if their art is seen as ‘political’?...
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Move over Kevin Bacon, UoN’s musicality theatre society, Musicality, is cutting loose on the dancefloor with their very own production of the family favourite ‘Footloose, The Musical!’...