On 13th September (yes, we’re a little late in the announcement) a team of AHA’s finest tutors beat other Art World luminaries to win the much coveted accolade of The Grouch Club Quiz winners 2012! We’re very proud. Our team, consisting of the wonderful...
We all know that Italian food is invariably delicious, its pretty much a given that if you eat in Italy, or in any Italian restaurant, you’re going to get a decent meal. However what I experienced this afternoon in the city of Modena, took...
Every girl has her dream dress. Unfortunately, these dreams rarely become reality. To get a dress design tailor made is often too expensive and rarely ends up how you once imagined it. However, in the bustling fabric market in Shanghai they will make you...
The names Van Gogh and Kandinsky are enough to attract anyone remotely interested in art, and this exhibition does not disappoint. Billed as the “first ever exhibition dedicated to symbolist landscape painting” it guides the audience through the symbolist movement from 1880-1910. Much of...
An ode to (Donatello’s) David Surprising in form and in story, my body so youthful and shiny. Arse sticking out, an androgynous pout, am I myth, my Medici, or city? Composed in the Bargello in Florence, March 2011 Donatello probably made his famous...
