Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
An ongoing sense of ‘startling dread’
MICHAL BONCZA recommends an exhibition of uncompromising paintings by a 17th century artist whose work speaks to our own times
Head of Saint John the Baptist
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
Ribera: Art of Violence
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
JOSE (JUSEPE) RIBERA was born in Xativa near Valencia, a town famous in Roman times for its linen and where later the Arabs introduced paper-production technologies.
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Ribera came from a well-to-do household, but he was attracted by Italy and the career in letters favoured by his family was shunned in favour of adventure. By 1612, aged 21, he was in Rome and lived in the house of a cardinal impressed by his dexterity at copying frescos. Locals started calling him Lo Spagnoletto (the Little Spaniard).
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