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Michal Boncza
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Culture / 23 December 2024
23 December 2024
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Books / 3 December 2024
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
5 May 2024
MICHAL BONCZA reviews Cairokee gig at the London Barbican
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Culture / 29 April 2024
29 April 2024
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Opinion / 15 March 2024
15 March 2024
MICHAL BONCZA rounds up a series of images designed to inspire women
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Book Review / 25 January 2024
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
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
25 September 2023
New releases from Sam Eastmond, Angharad Jenkins and Patrick Rimes, Gabriel Moreno
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Exhibition Review / 24 August 2023
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
6 June 2023
In the 1960s Feliks Topolski revitalised the ancient art of chronicle with panache and gusto. MICHAL BONCZA looks at the work
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Sculpture / 20 March 2023
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
23 January 2023
New releases from The Dassins, Sylvette and Spear of Destiny
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Cartoons / 10 November 2022
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
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
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
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
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
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
7 March 2022
New release from Trupa Trupa, Gabriel Moreno and Gilmore Trail
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Obituary / 26 January 2022
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
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Art in the Open / 1 December 2021
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
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
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
19 October 2021
The 2021 RIBA Neave Brown award for housing went to the most innovative architect working in Britain today
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NARRATIVE-CHANGING ART / 24 August 2021
24 August 2021
Paul Cezanne redefined modern painting and his influence rippled for over a century
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Exhibition / 23 August 2021
23 August 2021
Brest Fortress Memorial pic credit: Pic: Lena Armstrong/Crea
Art in the Open / 16 August 2021
16 August 2021
Massive emotional tribute to anti-Nazi heroes
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ART IN THE OPEN / 27 July 2021
27 July 2021
Innovatory tributes to leaders of popular rebellions
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BOOKS / 7 July 2021
7 July 2021
Damning indictment of Britain's role in evicting islanders from their homeland
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MUSIC / 25 June 2021
25 June 2021
Latest releases from BSI, Dal:um and Davie Furey
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ART OF INNOVATION / 13 June 2021
13 June 2021
Class-conscious canvases from the artist who introduced scientific principles to painting
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BOOKS / 25 May 2021
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
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
23 May 2021
Social comment, allotment architecture and humour stand out in engaging show