Philippa Willitts
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In favour of travelling to uncool places - Global Comment (opens the original)
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New York, Milan, Paris… all exceptional destinations in their own unique ways. I spent a lot of time in Paris as a tour guide in my teens and adored it, and I love a trip to a tourist fave as much as the next person. But they are also busy. They are expensive. And they can have such extreme hype that many are disappointed because nothing can quite live up to the city they’ve dreamed of for years. So let me propose something that is as daft as it is radical: go somewhere so UNhyped that you can (
How to go to art galleries if you can’t stand art galleries - Global Comment (opens the original)
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If you associate art galleries with stuffy, silent rooms of drab oil paintings of long-dead men, or of pretentious luvvies who judge your every micro-expression, or of spending a fortune to see weird stuff you don’t understand, I have some excellent news for you: it doesn’t have to be like that! My parents meant well in this respect, but a childhood of being dragged around long rooms of the aforementioned dead-men oil paintings put me off galleries for a lot of my adulthood. My dad seemed to spe
Read lo-fi, read slow: in praise of zines - Global Comment (opens the original)
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The world has become a very fast place to live. I think I was roughly plodding along pretty well with the internet as it was, but the speed of AI has frightened me. Not the speed of its widespread adoption – though that is arguably terrifying in itself. Instead, it’s the fact that if people want to know the answer to a question, they don’t even have to wade through Google results any more. Which was already far quicker than my parents’ “Wait til we go to the library on Saturday” when I had a que
“What if Sleeping Beauty could rescue herself?”: Fierce Fairytales review - Global Comment (opens the original)
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I was a very girly-girl when I was small. I grew up on fairy tales, usually read to me by my dad, and imagined myself as every princess I heard about. I adored those stories, and it was only as an adult that I saw just how dark and disturbing many of them are. These stories we tell children are full of messy tropes about gender roles, constant assumptions that girls’ only dream of marrying a prince, and more explicitly fucked-up messaging about consent, parenting, and love. As a result, I’m real
Why we need as much public art as possible - Global Comment (opens the original)
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I love a trip to a gallery, but I know that the idea of going to a formal exhibition is off-putting to many people. Indeed, I avoided them for many years due to childhood associations with long, darkened rooms full of dull oil paintings of old and dead people. But since learning that they can instead be all about slug sex and butterfly gowns, and dark oil paintings can be avoided, they’re a lovely treat these days. Despite this, not everybody can be dragged into a gallery or a museum, nor should
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