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Why Countercultural Arts Spaces Must be Preserved
Legendary London arts venue, The Horse Hospital, nurtures a vital web of creative expression and disruptive ideas
Hidden down a cobbled backstreet behind the British Museum, a heavy wooden door opens onto a deep red passage that leads into a multidimensional, womb-like space. So many incredible events have been held at the Horse Hospital since it launched in 1993 that the past echoes around its walls: mods, rockers, punks and queer kids of all ages laughing, chatting, fooling around; artists and performers experimenting with sound, touch, trash; an older woman, oozing style as she sips on vino, drawing a young artist who’s getting a tattoo; a man with a commanding stage presence reciting a poem about the loss of a lover that reverberates through the audience in a shared moment of euphoric agony.
Featured in The Eccentric Art of Power Dressing
In a culture so fixated on image, Sean Burns explores why what’s beyond ‘the look’ is more important than ever
In David Frankel’s
The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Meryl Streep’s Anna Wintour character, Miranda Priestly, admonishes her new assistant, played by Anne Hathaway, after she sniggers during a meeting with a group of flustered stylists. Priestly reads her apparent outsider stance and lack of style, detailing how her cerulean – not turquoise, not lapis – ‘lumpy’ sweater is the result of a long chain of decisions initiated in that very office. Priestly is a powerful character and, indeed, the film is about how outsiders negotiate such dragons and their enormous egos.