The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE recommends an impressive impersonation of Bob Dylan
Best of 2024: Jan Woolf
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The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE reviews Here, Vermiglio, William Tell and Wolf Man
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RINA ARYA confronts the brutal operation of Francis Bacon’s approach to portraiture
Emphasising his continuous engagement in labour movement struggles, ALISTAIR FINDLAY salutes John Foster’s contribution as activist, strategist, intellectual and defender of the Morning Star
ANDY MIAH advocates the use of AI to assist people by expanding access to global literature and culture
EWAN KOTZ relishes a veteran Glasgow band that have lost none of their verve for live performance
TED HUGHES said that deadlines were good for artists and journos as its imminent arrival provokes fear and therefore adrenalin — and we get on with it. And so, herewith my 12 deadlines for 2024.
The partridge in the pear tree, if you like, was The Flea at Hackney’s Yard Theatre, a vivid production about old hypocrisies. “The poor have got their channels in the bedrooms of the rich.” My pieces need a good haiku of a title and editorial provides them.
The delicious and deceptively mysterious painter “Here Comes the Sun King” on Ken Kiff’s Show, then Peter Kennard’s Archive of Dissent at the Whitechapel Gallery London (on till January 19) which made me hail him in print as the “artist of the human conscience.”
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