SIMON PARSONS applauds an original, visual and movement-based take on the birth and death of a relationship
Latest editorial
The art of Brexit
CHRIS MOSS pores over a stimulating and stirring collage of ideas and imagery generated by the 2016 referendum
YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING: National Front office, in London, and campaigner (left), 1971 by Romano Cagnoni (1935-2018)
[Courtesy of Fondazione Romano Cagnoni]
JOHN GREEN’s palette is tickled by useful information leavened by amusing and unusual anecdotes, incidental gossip and scare stories
The bard contemplates X — anti-human vomit soup with dog shit croutons — and the Tory recycling bin that is Reform
ALAN MORRISON recommends an outstanding and timely anthology of poems that reflect the experience and consequences of African migration
BINOY KAMPMARK examines the food racket as evidenced by the recent promotion of Italian cuisine to the status of ‘intangible national heritage’
FIONA O’CONNOR and MARIA DUARTE review State of Statelessness, Rental Family, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, and The Rip
Leave to Remain: A Snapshot of Brexit
Noni Stacey, Lund Humphries, £35
WHAT are we to do with Brexit?
Whether you were for or against the ultimate decision, you can rest assured you were hoodwinked. The pro arguments were false, the anti case was non-existent. The cheats and liars who ushered the docile nation towards the exit are universally discredited. Yet here we are – with memories, confusions, anxieties and, let’s face it, a species of political fatigue mingled with melancholy. Being had is hard to bear.
Similar stories
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
This plundering of the archive tells us little about reality, and more about the class bias of the BBC, muses DENNIS BROE
CHRISTINE LINDEY welcomes a film that focuses exclusively on women war artists, but deplores its omission of feminism, political context and Soviet anti-war art
CAILEAN MCBRIDE proposes a response to the encroachment of AI in the arts by reducing the duration of copyright and assuring full protection