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Matthew Hawkins
William Blake by Thomas Phillips, 1807 / Public Domain
Culture / 21 July 2025
21 July 2025

MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake

bowery
Exhibition review / 24 June 2025
24 June 2025

MATTHEW HAWKINS enjoys the perverse jocularity, depraved glamour and inner turbulence of the Tate gallery’s tribute to Leigh Bowery

amazed
Book Review / 10 June 2025
10 June 2025

MATTHEW HAWKINS enjoys a father’s memoir of life with his autistic son, and the music they explore together

dance
Follow the Movement / 19 May 2025
19 May 2025

MATTHEW HAWKINS gives us a sense of what to expect from Glasgow’s International Dance festival

dance
Dance / 9 May 2025
9 May 2025

MATTHEW HAWKINS surveys the upcoming programme of contemporary dance in Glasgow, and picks some highlights

SENSUAL ENLIGHTENMENT: Teige Bisnought and Dylan Springer in
Follow the Movement / 18 March 2025
18 March 2025
MATTHEW HAWKINS appreciates an interpretation in dance of James Baldwin’s landmark novel of doomed homosexual desire
Fergus Greer, (L) Leigh Bowery Session 1 Look 2 1988; (R) Le
Follow the movement / 18 February 2025
18 February 2025
MATTHEW HAWKINS pays tribute to the performance artist and costumier, Leigh Bowery
MUSLIM WOMEN'S RIGHTS: A mural from the Shaheen Bagh protest
Fiction / 7 January 2025
7 January 2025
MATTHEW HAWKINS is drawn into the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India
Cedric Villani, the French mathematician, speaking at a publ
Books / 25 October 2024
25 October 2024
MATTHEW HAWKINS admires a writer with the gumption and wit to extend a transformative experience of autism to the reader
REFRESHINGLY IMMEDIATE: Scottish Dance Theatre perform Movin
Follow the movement / 19 August 2024
19 August 2024
MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds two evocative new productions that have premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe before touring nationwide
SUFISM AND SEX: Aakash Odedra performs Songs of the Bulbul;
Follow the Movement / 14 August 2024
14 August 2024
MATTHEW HAWKINS savours the brilliant dynamism of Brazilian contemporary dance, and Leicester’s own virtuoso of Indian dervishery
Books / 28 May 2024
28 May 2024
MATTHEW HAWKINS savours the memoir of growing up in the slums of Glasgow in the 1970s and '80s