STEVE ANDREW enjoys an account of the many communities that flourished independently of and in resistance to the empires of old
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Picture This: February 20
TOM STONE urges you to catch the last dates of a New York singer/songwriter, never afraid to challenge her audiences musically or politically
JAN WOOLF examines work that aims to give viewers a material experience of the environments in the polar north and Britain equally affected by the climate crisis
The bard recalls advice received 50 years ago from his TRB muse, and sorts out appropriate legislation for football club ownership
MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review Facing War, Kontinental ’25, Bugonia, and Relay
MAYER WAKEFIELD is frustrated by a production of Ibsen’s classic study of an anti-heroine that fails to elucidate her motivations
PETER MASON tunes his ear into the domestic affairs of a Carribbean couple with a troublesome son
DURING the 1970s graphic designer Andrzej Klimowski — British-born and educated at St Martin’s School of Art — travelled to his parents' country Poland to further his studies at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts.
Over the next seven years, encouraged by legendary tutor Henryk Tomaszewski, he began designing posters for the thriving theatre and film industries. It was the golden age for Polish poster design as the state’s generous subsidy of culture meant promotional work was plentiful.
For Roman Cieslewicz, Franciszek Starowiejski, Jan Lenica, Jan Mlodozeniec, Wojciech Zamecznik, Waldemar Swiezy and Wojciech Fangor the streets became a permanent exhibition space in a kaleidoscope of constant change.
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