MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review The Stranger, Undertone, and Outcome
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Lithography from Leningrad: An Adventure in Soviet Art, Estorick Collection London
Vitality, modernity and humanity on show in small but beautifully formed exhibition
WILL STONE applauds the anniversary tour of Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches by Madchester icons, Shaun and Bez
JAN WOOLF invigilates images that meditate on Palestine, and the people who witness them
A murderous convention of crime writers, a hymn to nursing, a monster hunt, and robber baron capitalism
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a three-hander that broaches big themes, but doesn’t transcend dry academia
DAN GLAZEBROOK eavesdrops on the bourgeois intelligentsia and the stories it tells itself at this moment of crisis
IN 1961 the London exhibition Lithographs by 27 Soviet Artists, curated by Eric Estorick, created something of a stir in the city, with the work on show debunking the prevailing stereotypes of Socialist Realism as the only art “permitted” in the USSR.
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That modest show returns in this free exhibition, which includes the work of 15 of those original artists, created mostly before the demise of the Soviet Union. It benefits from the size of the gallery — no bigger than a living room — in giving the work an unexpected homely context.
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