MARIA DUARTE and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Sunny Dancer, Tony, Songs of Forgotten Trees, and The End of Oak Street
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Indelible marks of a great legacy
An exhibition of painter and printmaker Albrecht Durer’s work shows why he transcends his time, says PHILIP NORTON
JOHN GREEN relishes a powerful and moving drama that explores the lived realities of west London’s Punjabi community
MARTIN HALL welcomes a plea for greater compassion between believer and non-believer via the framework of philosophical enquiry
MATTHEW HAWKINS welcomes an engaging and nourishing account of the queer subculture that flourished in London between WWII and partial decriminalisation
RON JACOBS welcomes the political lessons for today, about organisation and withdrawal from conflict, made by an erudite and conversational biography
Albrecht Durer: Beyond
the Burden of Brilliance
Brantwood
5/5
IT’S the time of year when the museums roll out their blockbuster shows. Exhibitions that take years in the making, with intricately negotiated loans from around the world and catalogues that make good door stops, draw the crowds.
There’s Egypt’s Sunken Cities at The British Museum, Francis Bacon at The Tate Liverpool and this year’s most anticipated box-office triumph, Georgia O’Keefe at Tate Modern.
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SIMON DUFF is thrilled by a visceral, no-holds-barred exploration of the expressive powers of raw material
KIM CULLEN enjoys the survey of social work and working-class lives to be found in the superb work of British-Jamaican photographer Sandra George
JAN WOOLF examines work that aims to give viewers a material experience of the environments in the polar north and Britain equally affected by the climate crisis
KEVIN DONNELLY accepts the invitation to think speculatively in contemplation of representations of people of African descent in our cultural heritage