ANDY HEDGECOCK is entertained by a playful novel that embeds a fictional game at its heart
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Death comes for Liberals, entitled murder, Vatican hit squads, and fraternising with the Blitz killer
New releases from Public Image Ltd, William Basinski, and John Luther Adams
GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
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
The theme of the 2020 London Festival of Architecture (LFA) is power and its press release asserts: “[LFS] exists to democratise the discussion about architecture and our city.”
A timely sentiment as for years all we had is solitary “voices in the wilderness,” expressing major concerns about the status quo, and the deaf ears of officialdom.
The dramatic shift of power in London in favour of developers accelerated after the first mayorship of Ken Livingstone. It eroded democratic processes by excluding the city’s ordinary inhabitants from any decision-making, particularly about housing.
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