GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
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The Silenced
Gripping account of sporting resistance during the long night of fascism in Argentina
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
ANDY HEDGECOCK welcomes an accessible - and optimistic - take on our relationship to new technology
JOHN GREEN suggests that a new, biased, and highly readable re-hash of the story of the Cambridge Five be taken with a large pinch of salt
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a timely reminder of the long history of protests and the outdoor spaces in which they takes place
IN MARCH 1976, Argentina’s General Videla's military coup seized control of the country, enforcing a dictatorship that lasted six years.
Installing a reign of terror against all opponents, in his inaugural speech he proclaimed his aim: to eliminate subversive elements, ranging from communists, socialists and anarchists to trade unionists, intellectuals and the liberation-theory wing of the clergy, followed by their friends and associates and, finally, any citizens still undecided about the regime.
The School of Naval Mechanics (ESMA) was reassigned to the Military Intelligence Service, whose officials Claudio Fava calls “the street sweepers who would clean up the country,” in his novel The Silenced.
ESMA was one of about 340 concentration camps and torture chambers within Argentina and 90 per cent of the prisoners who were kidnapped and tortured there died.
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