Jessica Heron LangtonThe Turner Prize shortlist 2018written for Tank magazine: https://tankmagazine.com/tank/2018/05/turner-prize/Jun 13, 2018Jun 13, 2018
Jessica Heron LangtonFrom Caravaggio to Bill Cosby: Can We Separate Art from Artists?It is nothing new, bad men creating beautiful art. From the paintings that fill our galleries to the songs which serenade our lives and the…Apr 11, 20186Apr 11, 20186
Jessica Heron LangtonThe Fight for Free SpeechIt is 2 December 1964 and Mario Savio is fighting the machine. He strides up the steps of the neoclassical Sproul Hall at Berkley…Apr 2, 2018Apr 2, 2018
Jessica Heron LangtonTed, The Elephant Who Never Forgets“I hope you’ve got good eyesight”, Ted jokes as he stands in the doorway to his home. The doors are huge, dwarfing any person of a…Feb 26, 2018Feb 26, 2018
Jessica Heron LangtonThe Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize: A cry for humanityHung in London’s National Portrait Gallery, an image of a young man, 16 years of age, stares so powerfully and intensely into the…Feb 2, 2018Feb 2, 2018
Jessica Heron LangtonThe Wallace Collection: How eight oil paintings became one of London’s best kept secretsThe Wallace Collection exudes a calmness. Walking from Oxford Street station and wading through the pandemonium of shoppers, tourists and…Jan 19, 2018Jan 19, 2018
Jessica Heron LangtonCan we seperate art from artists?When I first watched Manhattan, I was ignorant. Maybe that’s not the right word, ignorant seems to imply that there was some wrongdoing on…Dec 8, 2017Dec 8, 2017
Jessica Heron LangtonNorth: Fashioning Identity — the exhibition celebrating a creative powerhouseA new exhibition exploring the ways in which Northern England is depicted in art, photography, and fashion, has opened at Somerset House…Nov 17, 20177Nov 17, 20177
Jessica Heron LangtonBetting: A Lads GameDuring the Napoleonic Wars of 1803–1815 British newspapers mocked the political and military leader, Napoleon Bonaparte, as a “little Boney…Nov 3, 2017Nov 3, 2017