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Angus Reid
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BenchMarx / 22 May 2025
22 May 2025

ANGUS REID calls for artists and curators to play their part with political and historical responsibility

HONOURED: The Monument to International Brigades on the site
BOOKS / 29 January 2023
29 January 2023
ANGUS REID recommends a landmark work of aural history that follows the intertwined lives of four International Brigaders
Gloria Abernethy sells the Black Panther newspaper while Tam
Photography / 23 December 2022
23 December 2022
ANGUS REID reviews a book that is an important and comprehensive work of documentation
WISH-FOR PANEL:  Mick Lynch, Jeremy Corbyn, Neil Findlay?
Edinburgh International Book Festival round up / 2 September 2022
2 September 2022
ANGUS REID harks back to the times, not that distant, when debates were fearsome confrontations about contemporary, pressing issues
Four Dutch actors share the main role as Eddy
Theatre Review / 21 August 2022
21 August 2022
ANGUS REID is moved by a brutally honest narration about growing up gay in a working-class community
Lois Hegerty and Michael McCardie
Theatre Review / 10 August 2022
10 August 2022
ANGUS REID warmly applauds a play inspired by a real-life union campaign against zero-hours contracts
A section of Suprematist works by Malevich exhibited at the
BOOKS / 9 August 2022
9 August 2022
ANGUS REID argues that what might have been impersonal for Kazimir Malevich has had a profound practical application for artists who embraced the October Revolution
Magnus Hirschfeld
Books / 22 July 2022
22 July 2022
ANGUS REID fills the blanks left by a biased academic perspective
(L to R) Expo 1958 Philips Pavilion and Iannis Xenakis in hi
Music Review / 19 July 2022
19 July 2022
On the centenary of the incomparable Greek composer’s birth ANGUS REID recalls and recommends a new recording of his Pleiades and Persephassa
Rosa Moxham
Preview / 16 June 2022
16 June 2022
Tom Cruise as Capt. Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell
OPINION / 14 June 2022
14 June 2022
ANGUS REID takes issue with the pernicious imperial sabre-rattling purveyed by a dying empire in the latest edition of Top Gun
Cast in full swing
Musical / 3 June 2022
3 June 2022
This production badly needs a knowing nod to the audience and a contemporary riff, suggests ANGUS REID