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Artist from the air
JOHN GREEN looks forward to the first exhibition in Britain of a great landscape photographer
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
You hardly realise you are looking at images of our world when gazing upon Alex MacLean's aerial photographs.
These are not simply "photos from the air" like the ones often produced by run-of-the-mill commercial photographers. McLean's have the compelling simplicity and beauty of great abstract art.
MacLean is a US photographic artist, best known for the aerial photography in which he has specialised. The apparent simplicity of his photos betrays an incredibly keen eye for the extraordinary, the aesthetic and the graphic.
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MIRANDA RICHMOND relishes the gloriously liberated art of Roy Oxlade, and traces his method back to the thinking of David Bomberg, his acknowledged teacher
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