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The night that kind of fizzled out
black midi in action at Somerset House’s Summer Series 2022
[Mik Sabiers]
Banksy’s identity may have been published – but was the investigation in the public interest, asks PETER BENGTSEN
RON JACOBS recommends a book that charts the disparate circumstances that defined the lives of two prominent black Afro-Americans — one a communist, the other an anti-communist
CHRIS MOSS joins the hunt in Argentina for the works of Poland’s most enigmatic exile
SYLVIA HIKINS welcomes a survey of successful contemporary worker co-operatives and economy-based co-operative systems
DAVID NICHOLSON recommends the staging of this Wagnerian classic minus one or two insignificant quibbles
black midi
Somerset House
ROCK, jazz, hip hop, ambient, prog, there are many musical genres that black midi mine in their repertoire and over an 80-minute set at Somerset House all of the above and more are touched upon.
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