ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MARIA DUARTE review On The Sea, A Useful Ghost, Brunello: The Gracious Visionary, and Pinocchio Unstrung
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London Stories at Transport Museum
(Left to right) 1st prize, Eliza Southwood, London is the Place for Me; 2nd prize, Anna Steinberg, 3rd prize, Mobb, The Faceless Woman
[London Transport Museum]
RON JACOBS enjoys a great tale, told by a US communist, of the lives of working-class New Yorkers
BRENT CUTLER searches a new history of contemporary Iran for an understanding of the Islamic Republic, finding both interesting detail and glaring omissions
MARIA DUARTE recommends the true story of the remarkable woman who sued Donald Trump for sexual assault not once, but twice
KENNY MacASKILL is disappointed by a polemical, rather than factual, account of the Lone Star State and its political path since the civil war
PAUL DONOVAN is fascinated by the lives of Charles and Mary Bagot, and the insight this biography shines on the morals of pre-Victorian society
GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue
AFTER a one-year hiatus, when the London Transport Museum occupied its gallery with the momentous year-long Poster Girls exhibition, the prestigious Poster Prize for Illustration is back.
Poster Girls celebrated a century of women winning voting rights with a display of posters designed for the Underground by women and it proved to be one of the most successful ever held by the museum.
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SIMON PARSONS applauds an artist who rescues and rehumanises stories of women, the victims of violence, from a feminist perspective
JOHN GREEN welcomes a remarkable study of Mozambique’s most renowned contemporary artist