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Arts Ahead
Online pleasures, from the opening bars of 2001 to a theatre show, a music festival and a soap-opera rolled into one
METAPHOR: Nest by Karin Mear, online at Cynon Valley Museum
GORDON PARSONS steps warily through the pessimistic world view of an influential US conservative
HENRY BELL takes issue with the assertion that basic income is a remedy for poverty when it doesn’t address the inbuilt inequality of capitalism
RON JACOBS welcomes an investigation of the murders of US leftist activists that tells the story of a solidarity movement in Chile
RITA DI SANTO surveys the smorgasbord of films on offer at this year’s festival
Reviews of A New Kind Of Wilderness, The Marching Band, Good One and Magic Farm by MARIA DUARTE, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA
SCOTT ALSWORTH foresees the coming of the smaller, leaner, and class conscious indie studio, with art as its guiding star
“THERE is that smaller world which is the stage and that larger stage which is the world,” writer and critic Isaac Goldberg once said.
Truth is, it’s all becoming one and the same as enforced isolation connects us with art, music and theatre we probably wouldn’t get to see in normal times.
A case in point is the latest online offering from Opera North. Internationally renowned conductor Tobias Ringborn should have been at the helm of its orchestra for concerts of Richard Strauss’s Also Sprach Zarathustra in Leeds and Huddersfield by now.
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