GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
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From stupidly vindictive Tories to a poet for our times
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
Fantastic gig last week at our lovely local Ropetackle Arts Centre in Shoreham where my band Barnstormer 1649 supported the enduringly brilliant Men They Couldn’t Hang who have now served up 35 years of anthemic, stirring and thoroughly socialist and antifascist songs. Never more needed than today.
Our volunteer-run venue with its friendly and welcoming atmosphere is a fitting setting.
But two recent events give us a clear idea of the government’s attitude to popular culture both at local and national level.
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