GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
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On the existential threat posed by invading US media conglomerates
Paradoxically sporadic, politically intelligent productions ameliorate the overall negative trends, writes DENNIS BROE
Ossekine, Disney Plus’ first French series
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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
DURING the largest television festival in the world Series Mania at Lille in northern France, everyone paid homage to the invasion in Ukraine, but what was often unstated was how to deal with another invasion, that of the US streamer conglomerates.
As money is now pouring into Europe, where production values are cheaper and where local production is being driven by the global and Western success of the Korean series Squid Game proving that audiences around the world are no longer adverse to watching native language series with subtitles.
Public television is everywhere threatened by these private monopolies. Typical is the case of Sally Riley, who heads the drama desk of ABC television in Australia where she is also in charge of an Indigenous branch of the network.
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