CATHERINE STEEL relishes a compelling novel about Augustus’s right hand man, but misses the politics, the cultural shifts, and more detail about his restoration of Rome
Is this the proletariat?
ANGUS REID reels before a gigantic survey of the life and work of Peter Howson
When the Apple Ripens: Peter Howson at 65: A Retrospective
City Art Centre, Edinburgh
FROM the start, Peter Howson’s paintings have depicted men with exaggerated muscles, distorted limbs and grim, fanatical expressions.
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