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Michal Boncza
songi+winter
Culture / 23 December 2024
In the footsteps of Honore Daumier
23 December 2024
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Books / 3 December 2024
Pedagogy vs brainwashing
3 December 2024
MICHAL BONCZA recommends a compact volume that charts the art of propagating ideas across the 20th century
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Gig review / 5 May 2024
A night not to be forgotten in a hurry
5 May 2024
MICHAL BONCZA reviews Cairokee gig at the London Barbican
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Culture / 29 April 2024
May 1st: aspiration solidarity, hope
29 April 2024
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Opinion / 15 March 2024
‘The main task is, indeed, to awaken the women’s class consciousness and to incorporate them into the class struggle’ - Clara Zetkin
15 March 2024
MICHAL BONCZA rounds up a series of images designed to inspire women
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Book Review / 25 January 2024
‘So familiar and yet so unfathomable’
25 January 2024
If 17th-century Dutch art is your thing this must be your book, believes MICHAL BONCZA
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Book Review / 29 September 2023
Refuge for the soul
29 September 2023
MICHAL BONCZA recommends an exquisitely illustrated publication which charts the origins, rise and fall of the seminal Russian dacha
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Culture / 25 September 2023
Album reviews with MICHAL BONCZA
25 September 2023
New releases from Sam Eastmond, Angharad Jenkins and Patrick Rimes, Gabriel Moreno
Moore
Exhibition Review / 24 August 2023
Less is Moore 
24 August 2023
Henry Moore is one of the most frequently exhibited sculptors in the world. MICHAL BONCZA looks at a revelatory collection of posters that advertised these shows
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Exhibition Review / 6 June 2023
Harvest of a hungry pencil
6 June 2023
In the 1960s Feliks Topolski revitalised the ancient art of chronicle with panache and gusto. MICHAL BONCZA looks at the work
Chile
Sculpture / 20 March 2023
Commemorating the victims of Pinochet’s death flights
20 March 2023
In an exclusive interview CRISTIAN DEL CANTO speaks to Michal Boncza about his design for the Tobalaba Aerodrome Memorial, its political significance and the struggle to have it erected
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Culture / 23 January 2023
Album reviews with Michal Boncza: January 23, 2023
23 January 2023
New releases from The Dassins, Sylvette and Spear of Destiny
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Cartoons / 10 November 2022
The inimitable Lorna Miller
10 November 2022
MICHAL BONCZA recommends a superb collection of BoJo cartoons by the Morning Star contributor
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Exhibition / 25 October 2022
Fragmentary clay narratives
25 October 2022
Epigram succeeds where epic fails – this Persian proverb best describes Marta Jakobovits's thoughtful ceramic assemblages, writes MICHAL BONCZA
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POSTERS / 15 August 2022
A graphic metamorphosis like no other
15 August 2022
The graphics of Soviet film posters uttered the new revolutionary visual grammar and it dazzled the world. MICHAL BONCZA recommends a superb book dedicated to it
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Culture / 21 July 2022
Album reviews with Michal Boncza: July 22, 2022
21 July 2022
New releases by Los Hermanos Ballumbrosio, Avalanche Kaito and The Shipbuilders
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Art in the open / 10 June 2022
Lest we forget
10 June 2022
German Nazis indulged in an orgy of book-burning that had no parallels in the 20th century. This monument is a pertinent and timely reminder of how destructive intolerance is
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Exhibition / 12 May 2022
An artist of our time for our time
12 May 2022
Neurodiverse painter THOMPSON HALL speaks to Michal Boncza about what inspires him, how he works and what his hopes for the future are
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Music / 7 March 2022
Album reviews with Michal Boncza: March 9, 2022
7 March 2022
New release from Trupa Trupa, Gabriel Moreno and Gilmore Trail
1970-1910
Book Review / 6 March 2022
A riveting chronicle of the four decades that defined contemporary London
6 March 2022
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Obituary / 26 January 2022
The man who coloured architecture
26 January 2022
By his own admission, RICARDO BOFILL LEVI was a ‘nomad’ of the profession but his Marxist convictions helped him become an unprecedented innovator of social housing design
Mandela
Art in the Open / 1 December 2021
‘May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears’
1 December 2021
The Nelson Mandela statue in Pretoria epitomises the early, but yet to be fulfilled, promise of an all-embracing prosperous ‘Rainbow Nation’
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Interview / 8 November 2021
The art of framing the problem not solving it
8 November 2021
Photographer STEPHEN GILL speaks to the Morning Star about the world he sees through the lens of his camera
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Exhibition Review / 20 October 2021
An elevating sermon
20 October 2021
In Theaster Gates’s work the spiritual and the utilitarian are inescapably conjoined to offer comfort and hope, believes MICHAL BONCZA
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Architecture / 19 October 2021
Barber shows road forward for housing
19 October 2021
The 2021 RIBA Neave Brown award for housing went to the most innovative architect working in Britain today
St Victoire
NARRATIVE-CHANGING ART / 24 August 2021
‘The father of us all’
24 August 2021
Paul Cezanne redefined modern painting and his influence rippled for over a century
still lifes
Exhibition / 23 August 2021
The alluring appeal of the quintessential British modernist
23 August 2021
Brest Fortress Memorial pic credit: Pic: Lena Armstrong/Crea
Art in the Open / 16 August 2021
Lest we forget
16 August 2021
Massive emotional tribute to anti-Nazi heroes
(L to R) Manuel Rodriguez; Jose Gervasio Artigas Pic: Kees v
ART IN THE OPEN / 27 July 2021
Equestrian sculptures of Manuel Rodriguez in Chile and Jose Gervasio Artigas in Uruguay
27 July 2021
Innovatory tributes to leaders of popular rebellions
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BOOKS / 7 July 2021
The Chagos Betrayal
7 July 2021
Damning indictment of Britain's role in evicting islanders from their homeland
album reviews
MUSIC / 25 June 2021
Album reviews
25 June 2021
Latest releases from BSI, Dal:um and Davie Furey
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ART OF INNOVATION / 13 June 2021
Georges Seurat: The Bathers at Asnieres and A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
13 June 2021
Class-conscious canvases from the artist who introduced scientific principles to painting
Wide view of The Garden
World / 11 June 2021
Unesco inaugurates the ‘Garden of Africa,’ a new resting place for refugees who died in the Mediterranean
11 June 2021
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BOOKS / 25 May 2021
Progenitor of the Soviet avant garde
25 May 2021
The activities of Vkhutemas — the pioneering art and technical studios in the Moscow of the 1920s — are brought thrillingly to life in a new book, says MICHAL BONCZA
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EXHIBITION / 25 May 2021
Organic eye-openers
25 May 2021
Drawing on elements such as seeds, pods and fruit stones, VERONICA RYAN'S works subtly reflect environmental and sociopolitical concerns, says Michal Boncza
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PICTURE THIS / 23 May 2021
Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours 209th Exhibition
23 May 2021
Social comment, allotment architecture and humour stand out in engaging show
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ART IN THE OPEN / 4 May 2021
Tres Sillas (‘Three Chairs’)
4 May 2021
Monument to brutal 1985 murder of communist militants in Quilicura, Santiago de Chile
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EXHIBITION / 25 April 2021
Carol Rhodes
25 April 2021
Landmark paintings and drawings of human impact on the natural landscape by staunch political activist
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ART IN THE OPEN / 7 April 2021
Holocaust Memorial, Judenplatz, Vienna
7 April 2021
Concrete reminder of nazi atrocities against Jews during WWII
Album reviews Furey+BLK JKS+Pet Needs
MUSIC / 18 March 2021
Album reviews
18 March 2021
Latest releases from Davie Furey, Pet Needs and BLK JKS
(L to R) Main hall under the dome; southeastern elevation on
ART IN THE OPEN / 17 March 2021
House of One
17 March 2021
Unique inter-faith place of learning, worship and reflection to be built in Berlin
FIRED UP: (Left to right) Magdalene Odundo, Early Vessel; Al
EXHIBITION / 16 March 2021
Clay for today
16 March 2021
MICHAL BONCZA recommends some striking work by contemporary female potters and ceramicists
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MUSIC / 3 February 2021
Album reviews
3 February 2021
The latest from Crazy Arm, Highlife artists and Bradford
cartoons
YEAR ROUND-UP / 27 December 2020
Best of 2020: Morning Star cartoons
27 December 2020
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Books / 13 December 2020
Robust defence of ‘brutalism’
13 December 2020
MICHAL BONCZA recommends a photographic record of an architectural movement which is often wrongly denigrated
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Art in the Open / 9 December 2020
A powerful, revolutionary salute to continental solidarity
9 December 2020
ART IN THE OPEN LATIN AMERICA MEMORIAL ‘MAO GRANDE’ (BIG HAND) SAO PAULO, BRASI
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Picture This / 3 December 2020
A poignant remembrance of things past
3 December 2020
sunrise
Impressionism / 29 November 2020
How scientific advances ushered in one of the best known periods in European painting
29 November 2020
Michal Boncza on Impressionism, one of the most enduring instantly recognisable periods in art
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Exhibition Review / 25 November 2020
Modest exhibition interrogates unsavoury past as V&A offers a ‘mea culpa’
25 November 2020
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TV Review / 18 November 2020
Historical accuracy and dramatic panache
18 November 2020
An impressive recreation of a climactic period in black history
before and after
Art in the Open / 7 November 2020
The Kamenska anti-fascist memorial
7 November 2020
Album reviews: Oct 19, 2020
MUSIC / 18 October 2020
Album reviews with Michal Boncza: October 19, 2020
18 October 2020
Latest releases from Lucidvox, The Rheingans Sisters and Lizabett Russo
(L to R) New Deal Works Progress Administration (WPA) Planne
PICTURE THIS / 13 October 2020
100 Posters that Changed the World
13 October 2020
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GAME-CHANGING ART / 6 October 2020
Gustave Courbet: The Stone Breakers
6 October 2020
Painting which announced the advent of realism in European art
MUSIC / 30 September 2020
Album reviews with Michal Boncza: October 5, 2020
30 September 2020
Latest releses from The Slow Painters, Lisa Lambe and Stealing the Fire
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BOOKS / 20 September 2020
Long Shot: The Triumphs and Struggles of an NBA Freedom Fighter
20 September 2020
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ART IN THE OPEN / 20 September 2020
Irish Famine Memorial, Custom House Quay Dublin
20 September 2020
Left to right) Lyubov Popova: Painterly Architectonic, 1916;
PICTURE THIS / 13 September 2020
Cubism, The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
13 September 2020
Paintings which changed the way in which we look at the world on show in Edinburgh
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PICTURE THIS / 9 September 2020
Stealing from the Saracens
9 September 2020
Revelatory account of how Islamic architecture shaped Europe
The Third of May, 1808 by Francisco Goya
GAME-CHANGING ART / 25 August 2020
The Third of May, 1808 by Francisco Goya
25 August 2020
Anti-war painting that heralded a revolution in style and content
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PICTURE THIS / 26 July 2020
Karen Tweed: With Love from Orkney
26 July 2020
Master musician sketches out compelling visual landscapes
(L to R) Woman on a Table, 2002; Untitled (All images: court
ART ONLINE / 19 July 2020
Ordinary excitements
19 July 2020
What made Roy Oxlade excel as a painter, says MICHAL BONCZA, was his ability to transform the everyday into objects of wonder
MUSIC / 12 July 2020
Album reviews with Michal Boncza: July 15, 2020
12 July 2020
Latest releases from Thomas Bartlett, Layla Kaylif and Keith Relf
PICTURE THIS / 10 July 2020
Grayson Perry: The Pre-Therapy Years, The Holburne Museum, Bath
10 July 2020
Subversive show from 'the transvestite potter'
TUC HQ designed by David Du Roi Aberdeen with Bernard Meadow
ART IN THE OPEN / 5 July 2020
The Spirit of Trade Unionism by Bernard Meadows
5 July 2020
The Raft of the Medusa
GAME-CHANGING ART / 28 June 2020
Theodore Gericault's The Raft of the Medusa
28 June 2020
MUSIC / 19 June 2020
Album reviews with Michal Boncza
19 June 2020
Latest releases from Dutty Moonshine Big Band and Ma Polaine's Great Decline
Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith and Holofernes
Culture / 18 June 2020
Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith and Holofernes
18 June 2020
Canvas which challenged feudal stereotypes of women
Pic caption: UNDER THREAT: Cressingham Gardens Paul Wall/Wik
Opinion / 17 June 2020
London Fest architecture
17 June 2020
(Left to right, from top) Zernograd, Russia; Vasylkiv, Ukrai
PHOTOGRAPHY / 10 June 2020
Soviet Signs and Street Relics by Jason Guilbeau
10 June 2020
Poignant reminders of an optimistic Soviet past in Google-derived images
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ART IN THE OPEN / 5 June 2020
Distressing reminder of the Lidice massacre
5 June 2020
(Left to right) Two Winged Figures, 1976; Pair of Sitting Fi
PICTURE THIS / 31 May 2020
Lynn Chadwick, Gallery Pangolin
31 May 2020
Profound humanism shines through online retrospective of major sculptor's work
The Art of Protest
PICTURE THIS / 4 May 2020
The Art of Protest by Jo Rippon
4 May 2020
Stirring images of radical poster art
Destroyed City
ART IN THE OPEN / 3 May 2020
The Destroyed City, Rotterdam
3 May 2020
Quentin Blake
CARTOONING / 3 May 2020
Picture This: Free Quentin Blake ecards
3 May 2020
cartoonist: Dee Huez
INTERVIEW / 1 May 2020
Meet the cartoonist: Dee Huez
1 May 2020
The Morning Star's pages are enlivened by some sharp political cartoonists. One of them talks to Michal Boncza about his work
Paolo Uccello
ART HISTORY / 24 April 2020
Paolo Uccello: the father of perspective
24 April 2020
The Italian artist developed the technique which changed painting forever
INTUITIVE: Two troughs and flat bar, 1964
EXHIBITION / 13 March 2020
Geoffrey Clarke: Intuitionism, Pangolin London
13 March 2020
Prints leave their mark on outstanding representations of the extraordinary in the ordinary
Evan Schneider-Creative Common
ART IN THE OPEN / 5 March 2020
Let Us Beat our Swords into Ploughshares, UN Headquarters, New York
5 March 2020
Culture / 1 March 2020
‘It would be brilliant if our music made the world better’
1 March 2020
That's what Polish avant-garde rocker GRZEGORZ KWIATKOWSKI hopes but, says Michal Boncza, he isn't holding his breath
House of Illustration, London
Exhibition / 7 February 2020
The medium was his message
7 February 2020
MICHAL BONCZA recommends an exhibition of George Him's designs, revealing his pioneering use of colour and modernist techniques in visual communication
Tschabalala Self, Koco at the Bodega, 2017; Dana Schutz, Ima
Picture This / 5 February 2020
Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium, Whitechapel Gallery London
5 February 2020
Striking images in eclectic exhibition
Single shoe+flower_Danube by nikodem nijaki
Picture This / 30 January 2020
Shoes on the Danube
30 January 2020
Poignant memorial to Jews murdered in 1945 by Hungarian fascists in Budapest
Monochrome pics
Picture This / 23 January 2020
Monochrome, Tannery Gallery Machynlleth
23 January 2020
Despite its title, this free exhibition is anything but colourless
Zanjir by Amak Mahmoodian
Picture This / 6 January 2020
Amak Mahmoodian’s Zanjir, Arnolfini Bristol
6 January 2020
Past struggles of Iranian women linked with present in striking series of images
Forest Green Rovers' Concourse
Architecture / 3 January 2020
Revolutionary response to environmental concerns
3 January 2020
Forest Green Rovers' proposed new all-wood stadium is both elegant and a groundbreaking initiative in sustainability, says MICHAL BONCZA
Album review / 12 December 2019
Seasonal stunner from Kate Rusby
12 December 2019
Salgado
Picture This / 10 December 2019
Gold by Sebastiao Salgado
10 December 2019
PIC CAP EMOTIVE: Lizabett Russo
Year round-up / 9 December 2019
Best of 2019: Albums
9 December 2019
The Wolf of Baghdad
Picture This / 28 November 2019
The Wolf of Baghdad: Memoir Of A Lost Homeland by Carol Isaacs
28 November 2019
The history of Iraq’s Jews gets a revelatory graphic treatment
Eduardo Embry
Interview / 25 November 2019
Inspired by life itself
25 November 2019
Poet EDUARDO EMBRY talks to Michal Boncza about the influences on his work — exile in Britain after the murderous Pinochet coup, the satire in his new anthology Dead Flies and the current rebellion in his native Chile
Petrol Pump Queen
Picture This / 21 November 2019
Lithography from Leningrad: An Adventure in Soviet Art, Estorick Collection London
21 November 2019
Vitality, modernity and humanity on show in small but beautifully formed exhibition
PIC CAP Opening up: Ledra Street became the sixth crossing p
Book Review / 27 October 2019
Nicosia Beyond Barriers: Voices from a Divided City
27 October 2019
Potent visions of unity in diversity from Cypriot capital
Magisterial Jose Carlos Mariategui Pic: Jose Malanca
Book Review / 8 October 2019
In the Red Corner: The Marxism of Jose Carlos Mariategui
8 October 2019
Evaluation of the life and thought of influential Latin-American activist
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Picture This / 23 September 2019
An Opinionated Guide to London Architecture by Sujata Burman and Rosa Bertoli, photography Taran Wilkhu
23 September 2019
Capital journeys around London's building sights
Picture This / 19 September 2019
George Fullard: Human Tender, Pangolin Gallery London
19 September 2019
Book Review / 8 September 2019
Ugliness and Judgement: On Architecture in the Public Eye by Timothy Hyde
8 September 2019
Ugly but entertaining truths about architectural controversies over the last three centuries
https://youtu.be/UM8z-Lw1yIU
Album reviews with Michal Boncza: / 25 August 2019
Hardship Starship by No Hot Ashes
25 August 2019
The moral capitalist by Richard Cole
Culture / 25 August 2019
Meet the cartoonist: Richard Cole
25 August 2019
https://youtu.be/pKAWPyctGyo
Album reviews with Michal Boncza: / 25 August 2019
Of The Sun by Trupa Trupa
25 August 2019
Posters from Paddington Printshop
Picture this / 23 August 2019
Posters from Paddington Printshop
23 August 2019
Maquettes Ligh
Picture This / 15 August 2019
Naoya Hatakeyama: Everything is Illuminated Tate Modern Blavatnik Building, London
15 August 2019
Frank Bowling
Picture This / 1 August 2019
Frank Bowling, Tate Britain, London
1 August 2019
https://youtu.be/CswaEDsoE1c
Music / 19 July 2019
Album reviews with Michal Boncza: July 19, 2019
19 July 2019
Latest releases from Jesse Dayton, Velvet & Stone and Una Quinn
Interview / 16 July 2019
Meet the cartoonist
16 July 2019
The Morning Star's pages are enlivened by some of the country's best political cartoonists. One of them is Bristolian STELLA PERRETT
Chalk Farm Station + Ice Wharf Camden
Picture This / 15 July 2019
Oliver Yu Chan's open-air art, Royal Free Hospital, London
15 July 2019
Mona Hatoum Over My Dead Body, 2005;
Visual Arts / 3 July 2019
Confrontational, persuasive, subversive
3 July 2019
MICHAL BONCZA recommends a striking collection of images on the state of the Arab world
Book Review / 25 June 2019
A reputation restored
25 June 2019
An excellent book on the Bauhaus movement rightly highlights the significance of Hannes Meyer, one of its most revolutionary but neglected figures, says MICHAL BONCZA
Dogs
Book Review / 19 June 2019
Space Dogs: The Story of the Celebrated Canine Cosmonauts
19 June 2019
Fascinating account of the Soviet dogs who conquered space
uba cinemas-Megano and Yara, Havana
Picture This / 14 June 2019
Cuba's cinema architecture
14 June 2019
Book Review / 7 June 2019
Crises of Democracy by Adam Przeworski
7 June 2019
Dangers of the global democratic deficit investigated
bodies in urban spaces
Festival / 4 June 2019
Negotiating boundless choice
4 June 2019
MICHAL BONCZA tracks down some of the more radical events from the many listed in Boundaries, the theme of this month's London Festival of Architecture
For the many not the few
Book Review / 24 May 2019
Informative, empowering, inspirational
24 May 2019
MICHAL BONCZA recommends a new graphic history of class struggle in Britain
Too Much Yellow, 2018, and Tom Shakespeare-Intellect, with W
Picture This / 23 May 2019
Lucy Jones: Landscape and Inscape, Flowers Gallery London
23 May 2019
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Book Review / 12 May 2019
Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain by Leyla Daybelge And Magnus Englund
12 May 2019
Insightful exploration of an iconic building
(L toR) Full of Life and The Whole Caboodle
Picture This / 9 May 2019
Jon Buck: Time Of Our Lives, Gallery Pangolin, London
9 May 2019
Book Review / 29 April 2019
Stone-cold truths
29 April 2019
MICHAL BONCZA recommends a salutary new book on the Palestinians whose skills built the zionist state
PIC CAP Ebullient: Wayne Robinson and Carly Mercedes Dyer Pi
Musical Review / 29 April 2019
Misbehavin’ brilliantly
29 April 2019
MICHAL BONCZA sees a musical based on the music of Fats Waller that's about as good as it gets
Memoirs of a Book Thief
Culture / 22 April 2019
Picture This: Memoirs of a Book Thief
22 April 2019
Guantanamo Kid
Book Review / 7 April 2019
Guantanamo Kid: The True Story of Mohammed El-Gharani
7 April 2019
Obscenity of the US hell camp exposed in graphic story of a child's imprisonment
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Picture This / 28 March 2019
The Atlas of Brutalism
28 March 2019
Revelatory images of a maligned architectural movement, whose democratic intent has transformed the public space
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Exhibition Review / 26 March 2019
Sorolla: Spanish Master of Light, National Gallery, London
26 March 2019
There are some luminous treasures in an exhibition of work by the leading Spanish impressionist
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Culture / 13 March 2019
Designs on radical living: 100 years of the Bauhaus
13 March 2019
OTTO MUNZENBERG pays tribute to the movement whose influence on architecture and interior design is all around us
Nest 5, 2019 and Flight II - both bronze
Culture / 7 March 2019
Picture This: The Space Between, Pangolin Gallery London
7 March 2019
https://youtu.be/OYhgKUPNQ5E
Album Reviews / 28 February 2019
Pertinent poetic romance
28 February 2019
MICHAL BONZCA reviews the latest releases from Rusty Shackle, Ifriqiyya Electrique, and Ruth Notman and Sam Kelly
(Left to right) 1st prize, Eliza Southwood, London is the Pl
Picture This / 27 February 2019
London Stories at Transport Museum
27 February 2019
Daria Martin Tonight the World (Pic courtesy Maureen Paley)
Exhibition Review / 19 February 2019
Awakening forgotten dreams
19 February 2019
MICHAL BONCZA is intrigued by Daria Martin’s video exploration of her family past trauma coded in dreams
Smithsonian
Exhibition / 12 February 2019
Architecture: Monumental choices
12 February 2019
MICHAL BONCZA reviews an exhibition exploring the function of memorials and how we respond to them
PIC CAP Captivating: Bassekou Kouyate
Live Music Review / 31 January 2019
Malian masters in exhilarating form
31 January 2019
Culture / 25 January 2019
Album reviews
25 January 2019
New releases from Teesside to Mali via Stour Water
(Pic: Morley von Sternberg)
Picture This / 17 January 2019
Peter Barber: 100 Mile City and Other Stories
17 January 2019
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Picture This / 7 January 2019
London Jewish Bakers Union banner
7 January 2019