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Contributor
Shahidha Bari

Shahidha Bari teaches visual culture and philosophy at Queen Mary University of London, UK, and is the presenter of BBC Radio 3’s arts and ideas programme, Free Thinking. Her book Dressed: The Secret Life of Clothes will be published in June 2019.

Opinion
Breaking Free from the Artifice of the Fashion Shoot

From whiteness to the male gaze, photographers Hanna Moon and Joyce Ng reflect on the conventions that underpin the fashion industry

BY Shahidha Bari | 01 APR 19
Fan Letter
Louise Bourgeois at the Opening of Tate Modern

‘No other installation has come close to the swooning sensation of seeing Bourgeois’s work for the first time’

BY Shahidha Bari | 24 JAN 19
Opinion
What Can Historical Visions of Heaven on Earth Teach Us About the Future?

In a new book, T.J. Clark scours art historical depictions of divinity for clues about our contemporary age

BY Shahidha Bari | 03 DEC 18
Profiles
Two of the Founding Members of the Royal Academy Were Women. Who Were They?

On the gallery's 250th anniversary, Shahidha Bari looks at the work and legacy of Anglica Kauffman and Mary Moser

BY Shahidha Bari | 05 SEP 18
Profiles
The Life and Times of Alexander McQueen

A tender new film about the fashion icon and troubled genius whose creative vision ‘started the 21st century’

BY Shahidha Bari | 18 JUN 18