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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On the warpath
HELEN MERCER casts an experienced eye over an ambitious exhibition that nevertheless contains painful gaps
WHAT'S CHANGED? (L to R) Alexis Hunter, The Marxist Wife Still Does The Housework, 1978/2005; Stella Dadzie’s Motherland, 1984
[(L to R) Tate Britain / Author supplied]
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
Women in Revolt! Art and Activism 1970-1990
Tate Britain, London
THIS is a significant, high profile and very political exhibition presenting “two decades of art as provocation, protest and progress.”
Chronologically, starting with the first women’s liberation conference in Britain in 1970, it spans second and third wave feminism (the first wave being the suffrage movement of the early 20th century). It ends somewhat arbitrarily in 1990 with a note on the commercialisation of art and the marginalisation of “artists engaged in socially motivated practices.”
For many of us caught up in the debates of the women’s movement in the 1970s the questions the exhibition raises retain much of their fascination and the diversity, awareness, experimentation and rawness of the output is nostalgic and heady. The exhibition is large, detailed and richly repays a visit.
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