MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review The Stranger, Undertone, and Outcome
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Confrontational, persuasive, subversive
MICHAL BONCZA recommends a striking collection of images on the state of the Arab world
Mona Hatoum Over My Dead Body, 2005 (left) and (right) Batoul S’Himi World Under Pressure, 2012
WILL STONE applauds the anniversary tour of Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches by Madchester icons, Shaun and Bez
JAN WOOLF invigilates images that meditate on Palestine, and the people who witness them
A murderous convention of crime writers, a hymn to nursing, a monster hunt, and robber baron capitalism
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a three-hander that broaches big themes, but doesn’t transcend dry academia
DAN GLAZEBROOK eavesdrops on the bourgeois intelligentsia and the stories it tells itself at this moment of crisis
GENERAL Vo Nguyen Giap, who masterminded the Vietnamese wars of liberation against both the French and the US, was fond of saying that his most reliable re-supply of weapons always came from his enemies.
Those words spring to mind while paging through the book Arabicity: Contemporary Arab Art— it is exactly what most of these Arab artists have done.
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