RICHARD MURGATROYD enjoys a readable account of the life and meditations of one of the few Roman emperors with a good reputation
Frank Bowling, Tate Britain, London
ALEX HALL asks whether intelligence, and stupidity, are the outcomes of poverty and wealth, and cultural norms
BRENT CUTLER is persuaded by a new account of the rise of Christianity, and the fall of the Roman empire
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BETTER late than never comes to mind, somewhat unhappily, when looking and Frank Bowling’s first major retrospective at Tate Britain.
Now 85, Bowling — Guyanese by birth — moved, aged 19, to Britain in 1953 and studied at the Royal College of Art. David Hockney and RB Kitaj were there too.
Comparisons are useless as all wash of him like water off a duck’s back.
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