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by Susan Darlington
Impassioned: Ezra Furman
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GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
The Bard pays homage to Hull’s finest promoter and venue, and awards Douze Points to Laibach
KEVIN DONNELLY outlines how the bourgeois institutions inhibit our ability to to view art in revolutionary ways, and suggests some tactics to overturn it
EARLY in February Ezra Furman set the bar high when he appeared at the Brudenell Social Club in Leeds.
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