Marie Antoinette Style (V&A)
Marie-Antoinette Style reveals that despite her tragic end, Marie-Antoinette remains as fashionable today as she was in eighteenth-century France.
Criticks – BSECS online reviews
The eighteenth century was the first great age of criticism. In this spirit, the Criticks website provides entertaining, informative and provocative reviews of events and media that are of interest to scholars of the eighteenth century. These complement the reviews of books that are published in the journal of the Society, Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
Plays, concerts, operas, exhibitions, films, trade fiction, broadcasts and online resources are here considered in depth by experts in the field. If there is an event that you would like to see reviewed in these pages, or if you would like to review for us, please contact one of the editors below:
Criticks Editor
Criticks Subject Editors
Fiction: Helen Dallas
Fine and Decorative Art: Miriam Al Jamil
Media: Gráinne O’Hare
Music: Brianna Robertson-Kirkland
Theatre: Isabel Azar
Sarah Lethieullier’s Dolls’ House at the Huguenot Museum
Viewing Sarah Lethieullier’s dolls’ house at close quarters is an excellent experience, and one made all the better for its presentation in the Huguenot Museum.
Unearthed: The Power of Gardening (British Library)
Although difficult issues of ignorance, exploitation and commercial greed are addressed, the overall sense of this exhibition is one of hope, of the power of gardening and nurturing the land to heal
A Palimpsest of Country House Culture – Austen and Turner: A Country House Encounter (Harewood House)
These three players—Austen, Turner, Harewood—weave themselves in each gallery’s themes, bringing to our attention myriad resonances and surprises.
Review of Tate Britain Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain, 1520 – 1920
Spanning a monumental four hundred years (1520 – 1920), Tate’s “Now You See Us” rightfully unveils the works of over one hundred female artists and recovers from oblivion a collection of
“Curatorial Conversation” – Black Atlantic (Fitzwilliam Museum) & Entangled Pasts (Royal Academy)
The Fitzwilliam Museum’s Black Atlantic exhibition and the British Museum’s Enlightenment Gallery offer other ways of confronting curatorial complicity in colonialist and racist violence... With
Entangled Pasts 1768–now: Art, Colonialism and Change
The Royal Academy have largely achieved their aim for this exhibition by starting a courageous conversation about ‘art and its role in shaping narratives of empire, enslavement, resistance,
Angelica Kauffman
This modest exhibition is narrowly focussed on Angelica and her career leaving many questions still to be explored.
William Blake’s Universe
an ambitious attempt to set Blake and his ideas and works within broader contexts: of his artistic circle, of European classical traditions and of the wider, creative ‘background mood’ of his
Georgian Illuminations
Georgian Illuminations at the Sir John Soane’s Museum successfully exhibited, in all their jostling and juxtaposed glory, contemporary attitudes towards the light shows emerging out of and