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Jan 3, 2025 | 
frieze.com | Philippa Snow
In 2010, two historically significant events occurred within two months of each other: I graduated from art school with an unimpressive 2:1 grade, and Lady Gaga appeared on the red carpet of MTV’s Video Music Awards wearing a dress made of meat. At the time, I remember being thoroughly unimpressed – in a snobby, art hipster sort of way – with Gaga’s various attempts at performative freakiness.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
the-tls.co.uk | Vanessa Curtis |Adam Mars-Jones |J. E. Smyth |Philippa Snow
In a market crowded with full-length biographies of Vivien Leigh, Lyndsy Spence wisely refrains from adding another one. Instead she focuses on the years 1953–67, covering the period when Leigh was beginning to lose her grip on reality due to an escalation of bipolar illness. She had already won Oscars for the roles of Scarlett O’Hara and Blanche DuBois, and her high-profile marriage to Laurence Olivier was failing, damaged by his repeated infidelities and her fragile mental health.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
the-tls.co.uk | Philippa Snow
Welcome to the TLSWinner of the 2024 Niche Market Newspaper of the Year Award and proudly niche since 1902.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
bookforum.com | Grace Byron |Philippa Snow
BY Philippa Snow. London: MACK. 104 pages. Purchase this book: Bookshop • Amazon Grace Byron CHARLOTTE TILBURY LAUNCHED ITS KIM K lipstick in 2016: a vibeless, neutral, basic bitch pink. Kim was in on it, of course.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
artreview.com | Philippa Snow
In The Substance, it’s old versus young; hot versus not; Demi Moore versus Margaret Qualley; the film versus its viewer – and no one winsSpoilers aheadA body-horror satire that ostensibly takes aim at ageist beauty standards, writer-director Coralie Fargeat’s sophomore film The Substance casts a staggeringly gorgeous sixtysomething Demi Moore as a former Oscar winner named, insanely, ‘Elisabeth Sparkle’.
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Aug 10, 2024 | 
plastermagazine.com | Philippa Snow
9 min read In 2013, the gossip website Showbiz Spy ran a piece about Brad Pitt that I’ve remembered ever since, not least because I have somehow retained a screenshot of a statement from it—the affectionately named “DumbBrad.jpg” – across two laptop changes. The article addressed an in-house controversy at MOCA, the respected Californian art museum, over Pitt’s desire to serve on its board of trustees. Certainly, he had the $250,000 required to make the application, and the annual $75,000...
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
bookforum.com | Philippa Snow
Grace Byron Trophy Lives: On the Celebrity as an Art Object BY Philippa Snow. London: MACK. 104 pages. $18. Purchase this book: Bookshop • Amazon CHARLOTTE TILBURY LAUNCHED ITS KIM K lipstick in 2016: a vibeless, neutral, basic bitch pink. Kim was in on it, of course.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
plastermagazine.com | Philippa Snow
6 min read After some time spent browsing the current, magnificent Sarah Lucas survey at Tate Britain, with its crashed cars and hard cocks, its tits and asses and its seaside postcard puns, I found myself developing an intrusive thought. God, it whispered—chugged, even, circling my brain the way a toy train circles on a track—I need a cigarette. Lucas uses sex the way that certain historic painters used chiaroscuro shading; she might be said to put the “vag” in “Caravaggio.” That said, she...
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
artreview.com | Philippa Snow
Does Ti West’s B-movie trilogy have any “A ideas” hidden underneath its sexy nurse’s outfit? What does it mean to want to be – to believe that you are meant to be – a star? This is not quite the same thing as wanting to be merely famous, and it is not always about wanting to be recognised as being exceptionally skilled, either. It is more about seeing yourself as being exceptional full stop, and waiting for the wider world to notice.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
artreview.com | Philippa Snow
If Poor Things was a little coy about its quasi-feminist, pseudo-paedophilic subject matter, Yorgos Lanthimos is now fully back in sicko mode“You deserve better than getting fucked by an old man like Raymond,” a middle-aged male character (played by Jesse Plemons) tells his former boss’s much younger girlfriend (Margaret Qualley) in the first of the three shorts in Yorgos Lanthimos’s new anthology-film Kinds of Kindness.
