Harper\'s Bazaar UK - 10.2019

http://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk October 2019 | HARPER’S BAZAAR | 17 7

SEE, READ,

WATCH

Highlights of the screen,

page and stage

EXHIBITIONS

Maggi Hambling’s

evocative nudes, Dee

Nickerson’s folk-inspired paintings,

Sarah Baddon Price’s Cubist-style

portraits and Kate Boxer’s striking depiction

of the late Dorothy Parker are among the vivid

interpretations of the female form featured in

Art for Cure’s new selling exhibition at London’s

Bankside Gallery, with all profits going to

support breast-cancer research. FH

‘She-London’, hosted by Art for Cure (www.

artforcure.org.uk), is at Bankside

Gallery from 3 to 6 October.

A R T & S O U L

CULTURE

The book: The Testaments

Picking up 15 years after the

final scene in The Handmaid’s

Tale, Margaret Atwood’s highly

anticipated sequel contains the

explosive testaments of three

female narrators from Gilead.

Out on 10 September

(£20, Chatto & Windus).

The film: The Goldfinch

Directed by the Bafta Award

winner John Crowley, the

screen adaptation of Donna

Ta r t t ’s 2014 Pulitze r

Prize-winning novel The

Goldfinch stars Nicole Kidman

and Sarah Paulson.

Out on 27 September.

The play: Two Ladies

At the Bridge Theatre, the

playwright Nancy Harris portrays

a world in which the First Ladies

of France and America (played

by Zoë Wanamaker and Zrinka

Cvitesic) are left alone while their

husbands clash over politics. MH

14 September to 26 October

(www.bridgetheatre.co.uk).

Left: ‘Amanda (II)’

(1992) by Maggi

Hambling. Above:

Dee Nickerson’s

‘Wintry Joys’

Above: Sarah Baddon

Price’s ‘Alice New Leaf ’.

Right: ‘Dorothy Parker’

by Kate Boxer