ArtMuseLondon is a site for reviews of exhibitions, live music, opera, dance, recordings, books and other cultural events written by people with a keen interest and an intelligent, honest and accessible approach.
We are selective about what we see and hear and we don’t “review everything”. Instead, we choose to write about the exhibitions, concerts, recordings and books which interest us personally. Guest posts on related subjects are also invited.
To invite ArtMuseLondon to review your event, exhibition, CD or book, or to submit a guest post, please feel free to contact us via the Contact page.
Who we are:
Adrian Ainsworth is, by day, a copywriter specialising in plain language communications about finance and benefits. However, he spends the rest of the time consuming as much music, live or recorded, as possible – then writing about it, often on Specs, his slightly erratic ‘cultural diary’ containing thought pieces, performance and exhibition write-ups, playlists, and even a spot of light photography. He has a particular interest in art song and opera… and a general interest in everything else. Twitter @Adrian_Specs
Karine Hetherington is a Franco-British music and arts reviewer based in London. She regards Paris as her second home and has authored two novels, The Poet and the Hypotenuse and Fort Girard, set in France in the 1930s and 1940s. She loves to play all types of music and her Gaveau baby grand and ‘George Formby’ ukelele-banjo get an airing, when the occasion allows. When she is not writing or attending opera, Karine spends her time organising international conferences for the software industry. Twitter @ParisMemories
Michael Johnson is a music critic and writer with a particular interest in piano. He has worked as a reporter and editor in New York, Moscow, Paris and London over his journalism career. He covered European technology for Business Week for five years, and served nine years as chief editor of International Management magazine and was chief editor of the French technology weekly 01 Informatique. He also spent four years as Moscow correspondent of The Associated Press. He has been a regular contributor to International Piano magazine, and is the author of five books. Michael Johnson is based in Bordeaux, France. Besides English and French he is also fluent in Russian. He is co-editor with Frances Wilson of Lifting the Lid: Interviews with Concert Pianists.
Frances Wilson is a publicist and writer on classical music and pianism as The Cross-Eyed Pianist. A keen concert-goer, she writes music reviews for her blog and is a regular writer and content creator for classical music website InterludeHK. She has also written for Pianist Magazine, The Schubert Institute of the UK, Bachtrack.com, IDAGIO and Classical Music Magazine, writes programme notes for the Barbican Centre and Bridgewater Hall, and has appeared on BBC Radio 3’s Music Matters to discuss the effect of the internet and social media on music criticism and music journalism today. Her clients include the Royal School of Church Music, composer Thomas Hewitt Jones, and Hertfordshire Festival of Music. @CrossEyedPiano
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