MATTHEW HAWKINS contrasts the sinister enchantments of an AI infused interactive exhibition with the intimacies disclosed by two real artists
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Much more than a museum piece
HANNAH KHALIL talks to Joe Gill about her new play on the fraught history of Western interventions in Iraq
Groundbreaking: A Museum in Baghdad in rehearsal
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ANDY HEDGECOCK relishes a graphic portrayal of the corrosive impact of commodification, but can’t sympathise with the characters
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RON JACOBS welcomes a timely history of the Anti Imperialist league of America, and the role that culture played in their politics
STEVE ANDREW appreciates a passionate account of the Scottish Club during the ‘lost decade’
By telling the story of a lawless frontier town from the point of view of the Lakota, Chinese labourers, prostitutes and displaced prospectors, makes for a potted history of capital, suggests ALEX HALL
ON THE first day of rehearsals for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of A Museum in Baghdad, writer Hannah Khalil looked around the studio at the big cast.
Hannah Khalil
All but two were, like herself, of Arab descent.
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