Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Feeling at home among workers
CHRISTINE LINDEY is touched by an exhibition of evocative prints by Frank Brangwyn who shunned formal innovations in favour of socially conscious work
Unloading oranges at London Bridge
ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
The Star's critics ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA reviews I Am Love, The Penguin Lessons, Freaky Tales, The Thicket
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
JOHN GREEN relishes photography that unfolds a longstanding and poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
Frank Brangwyn’s Prints
Brighton Museum
Prints and Drawings Gallery
Royal Pavilion Gardens
Brighton BN1
Who nowadays has heard of Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956)? Yet he’d had the greatest international reputation of any British artist, he exhibited with Monet, Whistler and Degas, was feted by the Vienna Secessionists and was praised by Kandinsky.
Born in 1867 in Bruges to Anglo-Welsh, Catholic parents, he grew up in London from the age of eight.
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