PinnedPolly Mackintosh‘Medicine’: Is sober dancing the new ecstasy?I’m on a boat in Amsterdam. It’s 8pm on a Friday and the walls are already wet with condensation. The topless man next to me is sweating…·6 min read·Jan 7, 2024--114--114
Polly MackintoshSun and sin in Semana Santa, SevilleLast April, I arrived in Seville during Semana Santa, or Holy Week, for the second year in a row. Starting on Palm Sunday and continuing…7 min read·Mar 29, 2024----
Polly MackintoshReclaiming Flaine, the ‘world’s ugliest ski resort’There’s a Picasso to your left and a Vasarely to your right. Straight ahead is a Dubuffet, recognisable thanks to its blobby white shapes…5 min read·Jan 7, 2024--6--6
Polly MackintoshReviewing Alice Neel: There’s Still Another I SeeMy first brush with Alice Neel’s brush came at the tender age of fifteen, when my GCSE art class was sent to her exhibition at the…4 min read·Nov 12, 2022----
Polly MackintoshBotín’s up!: a night at the ‘oldest restaurant in the world’Sobrino de Botín is the oldest restaurant in the world. The Guinness Book of World Records says so, and who could argue with that? It has…5 min read·Oct 12, 2022----