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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A powerful, revolutionary salute to continental solidarity
ART IN THE OPEN
LATIN AMERICA MEMORIAL ‘MAO GRANDE’ (BIG HAND)
SAO PAULO, BRASI
Latin America Memorial ‘Mao Grande’ (Big Hand), Sao Paulo, Brasil
[Monica Evelyn da Silva/Creative Commons]
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
THE Latin America Memorial is a cultural, political and leisure complex, inaugurated in 1989 as a centre for the integration of the continent. Its architecture is by Oscar Niemeyer.
It houses a permanent collection of art on display in- and outdoors and a library of over 30,000 titles, and holds numerous exhibitions, conferences, debates and all manner of performances.
In the middle of its central “public square” there is a more than seven-metres-tall modernist concrete sculpture of an open hand with a vermilion red “stigmata” wound cut into the middle of the palm, shaped like the Central and South American continents, including Cuba.
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