GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
A ‘revelation through concealment’
MIK SABIERS enjoys a book that documents the last project of two artists who mesmerised the public on a grand scale but never succumbed to commercialisation
NEARLY THERE: Ropes are being installed to secure and contour the fabric on the Arc de Triomphe on September 13, 2021
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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
L’Arc de Triomphe, WRAPPED
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Taschen, £20
JUST 16 days in situ, but 60 years in the making, this book charts the creation and construction of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s L’Arc de Triomphe, WRAPPED, although it doesn’t actually feature the final exhibit in all its glory.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude were known for wrapping, enveloping and engaging with open spaces, large installations and oil barrels (London Serpentine i 2018), but primarily their art was about fabric, textiles and temporary materials interacting with the environment.
Born on the same day in 1935, the pair met and married in Paris in the late 1950s and embarked on a career symbolised by art crossed with large scale landmarks and landscapes.
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SIMON PARSONS applauds an artist who rescues and rehumanises stories of women, the victims of violence, from a feminist perspective
ANDY HEDGECOCK relishes an exuberant blend of emotion and analysis that captures the politics and contrarian nature of the French composer
BLANE SAVAGE recommends the display of nine previously unseen works by the Glaswegian artist, novelist and playwright
