MARIA DUARTE recommends a remarkable study of the friendship between a Palestinian and a Pakistani, broken by a hostile state
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Michal Boncza reviews Poster Parade: A Century of Creative Women at the Transport Museum, London WC2
MATTHEW HAWKINS rakes through un-fancy words and flair-free summaries to find who and what might be flamboyant
PETER MASON is exhilarated by an exciting, well-considered and historically minded tribute to the great Trinidadian instrument
Reducing historical lives to ‘male’ and ‘female’ roles, we lose the nuance of those lives and a clearer understanding of past societies, suggests CLAIRE ISABELLA GILMOUR
CHRIS SEARLE relishes the genius of pianist Alexander Hawkins, his many ensembles, and his new album
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This remarkable exhibition, featuring work by women poster designers for London Underground, celebrates the extraordinary visual contribution they have made to public art over 100 years.
The array of distinctive styles on show is astonishing, starting with Ella Coates’s delightful autumnal watercolour Kew Gardens by Tram from 1910 and the seasonal theme is continued in Summer Joy by Lama Knight — the first woman ever to be elected to the Royal Academy — in which vigorous charcoal strokes outline the figures of women and girls on a shore of a boating lake with the splashes of contrasting colours completing a seductive, relaxing landscape.
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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
STEPHANIE BROWN draws attention to the hidden labour of the female embroiderers, and how a 19th century replica made no such error
CHRISTOPHE IMMER of the Morning Star’s German sister paper Junge Welt reports on a Berlin conference on the politics of art and the legacy of Marxist critic Hans Hess