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Postwar Modern: a lovingly created show with touches of the sublime
LYNNE WALSH is thrilled by an exhibition of post-war British art
John McHale, First Contact, 1958
Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New
York, © Estate of John McHale
[Brenda Bieger for Albright-Knox Art Gallery] 
JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
Prizes all round: the Bard hands plaudits to the Miners Gala, OT&JC, Joe Solo, Black Sabbath’s frontman and the Lionesses
Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain, 1945-1965.
Barbican
IF Jane Alison does little else in her career, she can look back on this lovingly curated show with pride.
Head of visual arts at London’s Barbican Centre, Alison has been in the job for nearly nine years; this exhibition has been two and a half in planning and execution. There are 48 artists represented, and some 200 works including painting, photography, sculpture and installations.
The curtain-raiser is John Latham’s Full Stop, a monumental piece with its giant black disk. A planet, black hole, an eclipse? One edge gives way to dots emerging — this full stop may not represent an ending, after all.
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