Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
The medium was his message
MICHAL BONCZA recommends an exhibition of George Him's designs, revealing his pioneering use of colour and modernist techniques in visual communication
House of Illustration, London
ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
The Star's critics ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA reviews I Am Love, The Penguin Lessons, Freaky Tales, The Thicket
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
Peter Mitchell's photography reveals a poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
WHEN Jerzy Himmelfarb came to Britain in 1937 from Lodz in Poland, he and his partner, the artist, designer and illustrator Jan Le Witt, had a portfolio significant enough to be invited to exhibit by publishers Lund Humphries and have the V&A ask for samples of their work.
There and then, they decided to relocate to England to further their careers and Himmelfarb anglicised and shortened his name to Him, sacrificing in the process the poetry of the family surname which in Yiddish means “colour of the sky.” Jerzy is just plain George in Polish.
With his resettlement, Him brought with him the avant-garde, modernist aesthetics of central Europe to Britain, which this delightful retrospective of Him’s seminal work engagingly catalogues.
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