APURBA CHATTERJEE explains how British artists in India used the “picturesque” to reshape colonial landscapes and celebrate imperial power
‘I am so thrilled that the four year nightmare of Trump's presidency will soon be behind us’
MARY HALVORSON talks to Chris Searle about what inspires her music and has a tender word for Robert Wyatt
Mary Halvorson
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PAUL DONOVAN welcomes a revival of Reginald Rose’s classic play that reminds us of the fundamental need for trials with juries
SIMON PARSONS applauds an exceptional performance of Wesker’s little-known play, by the same actor for whom it was written 45 years ago
ANDY HEDGECOCK and MARIA DUARTE review Late Fame, The Death of Robin Hood, Leviticus, and Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass
ANGUS REID recommends a uniquely accomplished documentary collage that contemplates our relation to the natural world
GORDON PARSONS enjoys Kant’s ‘mind-boggling’ theory of human reality: that we create the reality we experience
MARY HALVORSON, born in Boston in 1980, her mother a nurse, her father a landscape architect, has become one of jazz’s prime guitarists.
She began on the guitar at 11 with early influences from Hendrix to the Beatles to Monk, Coltrane, Miles and Ornette, became interested in free improvisation at school and after studying with alto saxophonist Anthony Braxton has been “working as a musician my whole life.”
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