STEVE ANDREW enjoys an account of the many communities that flourished independently of and in resistance to the empires of old
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Best of 2018: Visual arts
by MICHAL BONCZA
TOM STONE urges you to catch the last dates of a New York singer/songwriter, never afraid to challenge her audiences musically or politically
JAN WOOLF examines work that aims to give viewers a material experience of the environments in the polar north and Britain equally affected by the climate crisis
The bard recalls advice received 50 years ago from his TRB muse, and sorts out appropriate legislation for football club ownership
MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review Facing War, Kontinental ’25, Bugonia, and Relay
MAYER WAKEFIELD is frustrated by a production of Ibsen’s classic study of an anti-heroine that fails to elucidate her motivations
PETER MASON tunes his ear into the domestic affairs of a Carribbean couple with a troublesome son
THE PAINTINGS of Andrzej Wroblewski, who died tragically at the age of 29 in 1957 and who left work that was formally decades ahead of its time, got a welcome showing at Zwirner Gallery.
Ahead of its time: image from Andrzej Wroblewski's Executions
A committed communist, he engaged with the reality of post-war Poland in a manner that shocked the stifled art establishment and confounded the authorities.
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