Reviews of Habibi Funk 031, Kayatibu, and The Good Ones
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A visionary who still inspires
Jenny Farrell pays tribute to JOHN HEARTFIELD, the creator of political photomontage, who died 50 years ago today
SIMON DUFF relishes the cross contamination of Damien Hirst’s greatest hits by street artists from France and the US
In view of the grooming gangs inquiry, SIMON PARSONS feels the relevance of this powerful examination of trauma suffered at Medomsley Youth Detention Centre
JOHN GREEN doubts the motivations of a US war photographer who never questions why, or for whom, she is producing images of imperialist conflict
MARIA DUARTE reviews Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Hedda, The Mastermind, and Regretting You
TONY CONWAY welcomes a thrilling and concise history of Hope not Hate, that is also a manual full of tactical advice
PAUL DONOVAN welcomes an inspiring account of living with deafness that has important lessons for the treatment of deaf people in today’s UK
A FEARLESS communist and activist who lived through two world wars, John Heartfield was born in Berlin in 1891.
Along with his brother and two sisters he was abandoned by his parents at the age of eight and went with his siblings to live with relatives. After finishing school, the brothers moved first to Wiesbaden and from there to Munich where Heartfield studied art.
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