The Bard stands with the Reformers of Peterloo, and their shared genius in teaching history with music and song
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Best of 2018: Visual arts
BY CHRISTINE LINDEY
Urgent message: Forensic Architecture's Killing in Umm al-Hiran
SUE TURNER is fascinated by a book that researches who the largely immigrant workforce were that built the Empire State
MARIA DUARTE and MALC McGOOKIN review Sirat, The Testament of Ann Lee, EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, and All You Need Is Kill
STEVE ANDREW recommends a Marxist analysis of the long chains of production that global corporations exploit
MARY CONWAY relishes the period detail but misses the drama in this unsatisfactory dramatisation of the subjugated life of George Eliot
IAN SINCLAIR welcomes a mainstream scholar to the ranks of left-wing critique of US foreign policy
PETER MASON is disappointed that the eponymous Count fails to put in an appearance
IN 2018, the continuing revival of interest in progressive politics was reflected in artists’ and curators’ greater openness to serious themes.
After being almost forgotten for many decades, the prints of Frank Brangwyn were brought to a new audience by Brighton Museum.
Brangwyn intended his print series to be widely accessible by being much cheaper than unique paintings and his powerful depictions of dockers, shipbuilders, boot makers, woodcutters and bottle washers, while exposing their harsh conditions, honoured their labour without idealisation or sentimentality.
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LOUISE BOURDUA introduces the emotional and narrative religious art of 14th-century Siena that broke with Byzantine formalism and laid the foundations for the Renaissance