Ismene Brown
Bio
Dr Ismene Brown designed and launched the original version of The Arts Desk in 2009, and was the Site Coordinator and a board director for three years, as well as its dance editor. A musician trained at the Royal College of Music, she has been dance critic for the Daily Telegraph and the Spectator, and has also written for TAD on classical music, theatre, TV and film. Since then she has gained an MA at UCL and DPhil at Oxford University for work on the Soviet politician and arts minister Ekaterina Furtseva.
Articles By Ismene Brown
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Linck & Mülhahn, Hampstead Theatre review - problems as...
With the total loss of its Arts Council funding,...
Eliza Carthy and The Restitution, Barbican review - folk at...
Eliza Carthy has been busy, as she always has. Recording various albums with various artists during the pandemic, her show with her band, The...
Fabienne Verdier, The Song of the Stars (Le chant des étoile...
I have wanted to visit the Musée Unterlinden in Colmar for many years: the home of Matthias Grünewald’s masterpiece, the Isenheim Altarpiece (1512...
DVD: Babylon Berlin, Season Four
It’s coming up for two years since some of us watched the first three seasons of what’s increasingly coming to seem like television’s greatest...
The Damnation of Faust, LPO, Gardner, RFH review - the devil...
No work gives its listeners such pleasure on the way to hell (and back) as...
Saint Omer review - exile and erasure
Saint Omer is a psychological and sociological mystery, unpicking the enigma of Laurence (Guslagie Malanda), a French...
The Cunning Little Vixen, Opera North review - magic of a cl...
It’s good to think that there are some opera productions – not just compositions – that in themselves can have the status of classics. David...
Smoke, Southwark Playhouse review - dazzling Strindberg upda...
A play’s title can be an almost arbitrary matter – there’s no streetcar but plenty of desire in that one for example...
Album: Yo La Tengo - This Stupid World
Yo La Tengo’s new disc would appear to be an homage to the indie ...
Music Reissues Weekly: The Senders - All Killer No Filler
The New York Dolls, The Ramones, Suicide, Television, Blondie, The Dictators, The Heartbreakers, The Shirts, Richard Hell and the Voidoids. From...