PAUL DONOVAN applauds an intriguing multi-layered depiction, dominated by a stunning impersonation of Marilyn herself
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FIONA O'CONNOR salutes a valuable document of the art work of marginalised women in pre-gentrified New York
Helene Cixous teaching at Maison Heine, Paris; (inset) Ana Mendieta in Havana in 1981.
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LEO BOIX applauds an audacious, self-questioning film about grief, friendship and film-making
MARY CONWAY admires a brave and topical study of Armageddon that is, unfortunately, unable to come to a conclusion
ANDY HEDGECOCK, JAMES WALSH and JAMIE BRITTON review Hanging by a Wire, I Want Your Sex, The Pout-Pout Fish, and Rise of the Foot Soldier: Retribution
Chris Searle speaks to US pianist RAN BLAKE
The Bard hands out medals for his Edinburgh campaign and urges us to support The Men They Couldn’t Hang
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
by Lauren Elkin, Chatto & Windus , £20
DISTANCED from the market’s central nervous system, the avant-gardes of art and literature play together.
New ways of seeing, desiring and being are imagined. Questions about selfhood, in particular women’s selfhood, emerge while mainstream discourses are directed elsewhere.
A lack of curiosity from the market — because unsellable — helps create conditions in which artists and writers kick back against their confinements: social repression, economic unviability, the taboo.
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