SCOTT ALSWORTH foresees the coming of the smaller, leaner, and class conscious indie studio, with art as its guiding star
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Well red
MICHAL BONCZA recommends a book celebrating the primary colour's use in architecture
Paper Bridge
MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
A New Awakening: Adventures In British Jazz 1966 - 1971, G3, and Buck Owens
Red: Architecture in Monochrome
(Phaidon, £29.95)
THE COLOUR red has impacted on human creativity since time immemorial, from Palaeolithic cave painting in Spain, aboriginal Australian art and Pompeii’s villa frescos to the memorable El Lissitzky 1919 poster Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge.
Carminic acid, extracted from cochineal insects, was the dye used by Inca and Aztec elites and was worth its weight in gold to the conquistadors, who introduced it to Europe. They shipped 72 metric tonnes of it to Seville in 1587 alone.
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