Cal Revely-Calder

Cal Revely-Calder is a senior arts editor at The Telegraph. He has written for Artforum, The Nation, and The White Review. He is working on a book about melodrama.

Still from Jarman’s film The Garden (1990), captured by Liam Daniel.

Criticism Online

Derek Jarman in Paradise

By Cal Revely-Calder

Across his artistic mediums, Derek Jarman was often fixated on the concept of paradise. His recently recovered novella is no exception.

Screen capture from John Galliano’s interview on Charlie Rose in 2013. Seated at large round table in formal wear, Galliano and Rose are pictured in conversation against a black backdrop.

Essay Online

Embarrassing Fashion

By Cal Revely-Calder

What happens when an artist goes too far? Cal Revely-Calder can’t look away from the designer John Galliano’s melodramatic, and sometimes obscene, choices.