The thousands of athletes, support staff and sports fans who travel to Glasgow this summer for the 20th Commonwealth Games—aka Glasgow 2014—will find something potentially controversial in the heart of the city’s fashionable Merchant City district: a Pride House. Pride Houses have been a feature of notable international sporting events since the Vancouver Winter Olympics […]
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Derek Jarman
20 years after his death, why is the filmmaker, artist, writer and campaigner so revered? “I think he’s a really great artist, important in so many ways,” says Amanda Wilkinson, director of the Wilkinson Gallery in London which, in the latter part of 2013, hosted an exhibition of Derek Jarman’s “black paintings” which is now […]
