RON JACOBS applauds a reading of black history in the US that plots the path from autonomy to self-governance and then liberation
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Best of 2024: Jan Woolf
The playwright and artist reflects on the ways in which reviewing can nourish the creative act
Frank Auerbach, Head of EOW, 1960; John Berger; Peter Kennard, Protest and Survive 1980
[© the artist - courtesy of Frankie Rossi Art/Amarjit Chandan/Courtesy of Peter Kenner] 
TOM KING relishes an enlightening history of the checkered progress of the war that humanity has waged on bacteria
ANDY HEDGECOCK is intrigued by a scholarly account of how systemic disinformation can exacerbate the perception of threat and foster hatred
New releases from Cuban pianist Aruan Ortiz, trumpeter Kenny Dorham, and London pianist Geoff Castle
GORDON PARSONS is blown away by a superb production of Rostand’s comedy of verbal panache and swordmanship
WILL STONE applauds a comprehensive survey of love in its many moods and musical forms
TED HUGHES said that deadlines were good for artists and journos as its imminent arrival provokes fear and therefore adrenalin — and we get on with it. And so, herewith my 12 deadlines for 2024.
The partridge in the pear tree, if you like, was The Flea at Hackney’s Yard Theatre, a vivid production about old hypocrisies. “The poor have got their channels in the bedrooms of the rich.” My pieces need a good haiku of a title and editorial provides them.
The delicious and deceptively mysterious painter “Here Comes the Sun King” on Ken Kiff’s Show, then Peter Kennard’s Archive of Dissent at the Whitechapel Gallery London (on till January 19) which made me hail him in print as the “artist of the human conscience.”
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