GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
Is this the proletariat?
ANGUS REID reels before a gigantic survey of the life and work of Peter Howson
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[(L to R) Antonia Reeve - Flowers Gallery]
PAUL DONOVAN applauds an excellently crafted new musical that explores the life and death of Ruth Ellis
PAUL DONOVAN is tickled by the excruciating take-downs of one of the funniest, wittiest, political writers around.
RON JACOBS points out, via a transcription of Kissinger’s secret recordings, that Trump could never have existed without Nixon and Kissinger
ELLIS RAE is persuaded that the advantages of the ‘talking cure’ are superior to the treatment of mental illness with drugs
JOHN GREEN, MICHAL BONCZA and BELLA KATZ review The Good Boy, Broken English, and Don't Be Prey
When the Apple Ripens: Peter Howson at 65: A Retrospective
City Art Centre, Edinburgh
FROM the start, Peter Howson’s paintings have depicted men with exaggerated muscles, distorted limbs and grim, fanatical expressions.
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