JON BALDWIN recommends a provocative assertion of how working-class culture can rethink knowledge
The female gaze
LYNNE WALSH applauds a show of paintings that demonstrates the forward strides made by women over four centuries
Julia Margaret Cameron, Mountain Nymph, Sweet Liberty, 1865
These are vivid accounts of people’s experiences of far-right violence along with documentation of popular resistance, says MARJORIE MAYO
The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE, JOHN GREEN and ANGUS REID review An Army of Women, Julie Keeps Quiet, The Friend and The Ugly Stepsister
GORDON PARSONS squirms at a production that attempts to update Shakespeare’s comedy to a tale of Premier League football
Above a Gothic bar just down from Brighton station, something spooky is happening, suggests JAMES WALSH
PETER MASON is enthralled by an assembly of objects, ancient and modern, that have lain in the mud of London’s river
MIK SABIERS enjoys the theatrical feminist six piece who have a lot of fun that the audience feeds off as the set rolls on
Now You See Us: Women artists in Britain 1520-1920
Tate Britain, London
THIS is women’s work: brilliantly creative, tenacious, incandescent with passion, empathetic and rebellious.
There’s a word that crops up, though, in titles and texts: unknown. A portrait shows an Unknown Lady; it’s unknown where some artists trained; some painters had their names misspelled over the years. It’s almost as if no-one were paying attention to their talents.
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