GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
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Writer JAN WOOLF on delights and dodginess, from Devs to Captain Tom's NHS fundraiser
EXCELLENT: Devs
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
MY CONSUMPTION of media this week has been irregular and random, a thing of shreds and patches.
I limit corona coverage and won’t watch junk, which rules out most TV — except for Devs on BBC2, excellent. I concentrate instead on live streaming and the feeling of collective consciousness, singling out a play reading of Somebody Else by Jonathan Chadwick.
With actors Laura Lake Adebisi and Ruth Lass, it’s about the relationship between a refugee and her helper, and it has great emotional truth as each actor zooms in at us, as if we were the other character.
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