GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
A powerful, revolutionary salute to continental solidarity
ART IN THE OPEN
LATIN AMERICA MEMORIAL ‘MAO GRANDE’ (BIG HAND)
SAO PAULO, BRASI
Latin America Memorial ‘Mao Grande’ (Big Hand), Sao Paulo, Brasil
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PAUL DONOVAN applauds an excellently crafted new musical that explores the life and death of Ruth Ellis
PAUL DONOVAN is tickled by the excruciating take-downs of one of the funniest, wittiest, political writers around.
RON JACOBS points out, via a transcription of Kissinger’s secret recordings, that Trump could never have existed without Nixon and Kissinger
ELLIS RAE is persuaded that the advantages of the ‘talking cure’ are superior to the treatment of mental illness with drugs
JOHN GREEN, MICHAL BONCZA and BELLA KATZ review The Good Boy, Broken English, and Don't Be Prey
THE Latin America Memorial is a cultural, political and leisure complex, inaugurated in 1989 as a centre for the integration of the continent. Its architecture is by Oscar Niemeyer.
It houses a permanent collection of art on display in- and outdoors and a library of over 30,000 titles, and holds numerous exhibitions, conferences, debates and all manner of performances.
In the middle of its central “public square” there is a more than seven-metres-tall modernist concrete sculpture of an open hand with a vermilion red “stigmata” wound cut into the middle of the palm, shaped like the Central and South American continents, including Cuba.
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