ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MARIA DUARTE review On The Sea, A Useful Ghost, Brunello: The Gracious Visionary, and Pinocchio Unstrung
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Picture This: February 20
RON JACOBS enjoys a great tale, told by a US communist, of the lives of working-class New Yorkers
BRENT CUTLER searches a new history of contemporary Iran for an understanding of the Islamic Republic, finding both interesting detail and glaring omissions
MARIA DUARTE recommends the true story of the remarkable woman who sued Donald Trump for sexual assault not once, but twice
KENNY MacASKILL is disappointed by a polemical, rather than factual, account of the Lone Star State and its political path since the civil war
PAUL DONOVAN is fascinated by the lives of Charles and Mary Bagot, and the insight this biography shines on the morals of pre-Victorian society
GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue
DURING the 1970s graphic designer Andrzej Klimowski — British-born and educated at St Martin’s School of Art — travelled to his parents' country Poland to further his studies at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts.
Over the next seven years, encouraged by legendary tutor Henryk Tomaszewski, he began designing posters for the thriving theatre and film industries. It was the golden age for Polish poster design as the state’s generous subsidy of culture meant promotional work was plentiful.
For Roman Cieslewicz, Franciszek Starowiejski, Jan Lenica, Jan Mlodozeniec, Wojciech Zamecznik, Waldemar Swiezy and Wojciech Fangor the streets became a permanent exhibition space in a kaleidoscope of constant change.
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