RITA DI SANTO draws attention to a new film that features Ken Loach and Jeremy Corbyn, and their personal experience of media misrepresentation
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Geoffrey Clarke: Intuitionism, Pangolin London
Prints leave their mark on outstanding representations of the extraordinary in the ordinary
INTUITIVE: Two troughs and flat bar, 1964
JULIA TOPPIN recommends Patti Smith’s eloquent memoir that wrestles with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime
MARJORIE MAYO welcomes an account of family life after Oscar Wilde, a cathartic exercise, written by his grandson
KEN COCKBURN guides us through a survey of Chekov’s early short fiction, and the groundwork it laid for his later masterpieces
ANDY HEDGECOCK revels in a hugely enjoyable but deadly serious examination of the 1930s, that is an indictment of our own era
The bard distills our hellish times into fiery words
PANGOLIN’S curating is exceptional and the decision to present the work of the sculptor Geoffrey Clarke predominantly through his prints is a gamble that pays off handsomely.
Contextualising Clarke’s work from the 1950s to the 1990s, it’s an inspired selection that demonstrates his formal and thematic concerns over decades.
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MATTHEW HAWKINS gives us a sense of what to expect from Glasgow’s International Dance festival
LOUISE BOURDUA introduces the emotional and narrative religious art of 14th-century Siena that broke with Byzantine formalism and laid the foundations for the Renaissance
While the group known as the Colourists certainly reinvigorated Scottish painting, a new show is a welcome chance to reassess them, writes ANGUS REID