MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
Broken Gargoyles, Fridman Gallery, New York
WWI horrors the focus of haunting lockdown show from Diamanda Galas
'BROKEN GARGOYLES': Images from Plastic Surgery of the Face by Sir Harold Gillies, 1920
MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
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JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
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JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media
LOCKDOWN has led to a wholesale change in how art is created, experienced and consumed and the SO⅃OS series at New York’s Fridman Gallery is as good an example as any.
Reflecting New York’s shelter-in-place guidelines, only the performer is present in the room and the space itself is the viewer.
Over 12 weekly shows inside the empty gallery, each performer makes the space their own, whether with glitch pop from Victoria Keddle, C Lavender’s Impulse Chamber or Diamanda Galas’s sound work Broken Gargoyles.
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