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“Can we have five minutes of quiet?” Julia Bullock is asking, gently, not of me but her son, who has padded into the room in Houston where the American soprano is in the middle of a ten-day residency. Her husband, the conductor Christian Reif, is…
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Julia Bullock brings her decade-long reckoning with Josephine Baker to the Barbican
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Date October 16, 2026
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The Divas Are Coming Off the Walls
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On the first floor of a former Victorian silversmith’s atelier on Fleet Street, on the opening night of Frieze week, Ashley Saville Gallery is packed to the picture rails, and a figure is reading a monologue from beneath a papier-mâché box camera. This is Physiologic…
Date October 13, 2026
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A Children’s Play in São Paulo Became a Surrealist Art Series
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Children's theatre doesn't usually wiggle its way into the cultural conversation, which I think is a crying shame, because I believe, as many have argued, that the secret of genius is carrying the spirit of childhood into maturity. I have therefore always imagined that the…
Date September 25, 2026
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01
Julia Bullock brings her decade-long reckoning with Josephine Baker to the Barbican
Read
“Can we have five minutes of quiet?” Julia Bullock is asking, gently, not of me but her son, who has padded into the room in Houston where the American soprano is in the middle of a ten-day residency. Her husband, the conductor Christian Reif, is…
Date October 16, 2026
Read 5 min. read
02
The Divas Are Coming Off the Walls
Read
On the first floor of a former Victorian silversmith’s atelier on Fleet Street, on the opening night of Frieze week, Ashley Saville Gallery is packed to the picture rails, and a figure is reading a monologue from beneath a papier-mâché box camera. This is Physiologic…
Date October 13, 2026
Read 5 min.
03
A Children’s Play in São Paulo Became a Surrealist Art Series
Read
Children's theatre doesn't usually wiggle its way into the cultural conversation, which I think is a crying shame, because I believe, as many have argued, that the secret of genius is carrying the spirit of childhood into maturity. I have therefore always imagined that the…
Date September 25, 2026
Read 5 min. read
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