GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
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‘Man is born free and everywhere he is in chainstores’
The Bard pays homage to Hull’s finest promoter and venue, and awards Douze Points to Laibach
KEVIN DONNELLY outlines how the bourgeois institutions inhibit our ability to to view art in revolutionary ways, and suggests some tactics to overturn it
ANDY HEDGECOCK welcomes an accessible - and optimistic - take on our relationship to new technology
JOHN GREEN suggests that a new, biased, and highly readable re-hash of the story of the Cambridge Five be taken with a large pinch of salt
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a timely reminder of the long history of protests and the outdoor spaces in which they takes place
THAT headline comes from Jim Greenhalf's declaration in his new book, with an ironic nod to Rousseau. His collection Breakfast at Wetherspoons (Smokestack, £7.99) is a kind of bleak Bradford noir, full of gruff bar-stool wisdom.
“Whose cup spills over?/The emptiest pot makes the loudest din./Clay is stronger when it’s fired,/Flesh is stronger when it’s hired./Look through a glass darkly:/half-empty or half-full?/Some have no glass at all,/others no water,/no country.”
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MARTIN GRAHAM welcomes, with reservations, a scholarly addition to the unfinished business of understanding how capital works on a world scale
Fiery words from the Bard in Blackpool and Edinburgh, and Evidence Based Punk Rock from The Protest Family
The creative imagination is a weapon against barbarism, writes KENNY COYLE, who is a keynote speaker at the Manifesto Press conference, Art in the Age of Degenerative Capitalism, tomorrow at the Marx Memorial Library & Workers School in London
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