GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
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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
The Jungle
By Michel Agier et al
(Polity, £15. 99p)
Between 2015 and 2016, when it was forcibly cleared, “The Jungle” accommodated thousands of migrants and refugees from the area surrounding the French port of Calais, most of them hoping to cross the channel to Britain.
The infamous camp attracted international expressions of solidarity, as NGOs and activists responded to the inhabitants’ experiences of hostile officialdom, fanned by politicians exploiting the situation for reasons of their own.
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