Escapadas UK

Where Gravity Loses Its Grip: M.C. Escher Exhibition at Somerset House, London Press enter or click to view image in full size M.C. Escher Ascending and Descending, 1960 Lithograph, 355x285 mm M.C. Escher Heritage Collection, The Netherlands All M.C. Escher works © 2026 The M.C. Escher Heritage, Baarn, The Netherlands All rights reserved www.mcescher.com At Somerset House’s Embankment Galleries, M.C. Escher: The Exhibition invites visitors to enter a universe where staircases lead nowhere,...

Queer Saints Book Review: Magic, Miracles and Radical LGBTQ+ Spirituality Press enter or click to view image in full size In Queer Saints: A Radical Guide to Magic, Miracles, and Modern Intercession, Antonio Pagliarulo offers something both ancient and strikingly contemporary: a spiritual handbook for people who have often been made to feel that sacred traditions were never meant for them.

London Clown Festival 2026 Celebrates 10 Years of Contemporary Clowning Press enter or click to view image in full size The London Clown Festival returns in 2026 with a special 10th anniversary edition, celebrating a decade of clowning, physical comedy, absurdity and theatrical tomfoolery across the capital.

A Summer Cultural and Culinary Destination: The Summer Show at the Goodwood Art Foundation Press enter or click to view image in full size Hydra’s Head by Nancy Holt.Photo credit Lorenzo Belenguer After a wet and cold winter, summer feels almost theatrical this year: sudden, generous, and slightly unbelievable.

Spanish Baroque Painter Zurbarán: Essential Meditative Moments at the National Gallery Press enter or click to view image in full size Agnus Dei, about 1635–40. Photo credit: Lorenzo Belenguer There are exhibitions that impress; there are others that slow the body down. Zurbarán at the National Gallery belongs to the second category.

A 90s Cult Classic Must-See: Howie the Rookie at The Cockpit Theatre Press enter or click to view image in full size Andrew & Lucius as Rookie and Howie Lee_Howie the Rookie There are plays that politely ask for your attention, and then there is Howie the Rookie, Mark O’Rowe’s 90s cult classic, which grabs you by the throat, drags you through the backstreets of working-class Dublin, and leaves you laughing, bruised, horrified and strangely moved.

By Lorenzo Belenguer Press enter or click to view image in full size To pay tribute to Paco de Lucía is to take on an almost impossible task. How do you honour a musician so revered, so influential and so transformative without reducing him to nostalgia? Deeply admired by Eric Clapton and generations of guitarists across flamenco, jazz and rock, Paco de Lucía was not only a virtuoso but a musician who changed the possibilities of the instrument itself.

Tracey Emin — A Second Life at Tate Modern Press enter or click to view image in full size My Bed For anyone who relished the 1990s — when Tracey Emin was branded the enfant terrible of British art — this retrospective feels like a reunion. We remember the headlines as much as the artworks: the unapologetic interviews, the infamous 1997 live appearance on The Turner Prize where she appeared drunk and abruptly left, later saying she was going back to the pub with her friends.

Press enter or click to view image in full size God, The Devil and Me Some plays entertain. Others unsettle. A rarer few do something more generous: they invite us inside a lived experience that is usually hidden, misunderstood, or sensationalised. God, The Devil and Me belongs firmly in this last category — a darkly comic, deeply humane coming-of-age play that explores psychosis not as spectacle, but as reality.

Press enter or click to view image in full size Christmas tree decoration with the geese. Photo credit: Lorenzo Belenguer There is something magical about stepping into a grand historic house at Christmas. But this year, Chiswick House — Lord Burlington’s glorious neo-Palladian masterpiece — is doing something truly special.