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Arts Ahead: March 29
Sean Scully's Backcloth
GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
The Bard pays homage to Hull’s finest promoter and venue, and awards Douze Points to Laibach
KEVIN DONNELLY outlines how the bourgeois institutions inhibit our ability to to view art in revolutionary ways, and suggests some tactics to overturn it
ANDY HEDGECOCK welcomes an accessible - and optimistic - take on our relationship to new technology
JOHN GREEN suggests that a new, biased, and highly readable re-hash of the story of the Cambridge Five be taken with a large pinch of salt
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a timely reminder of the long history of protests and the outdoor spaces in which they takes place
NEWCASTLE EXHIBITION
Sean Scully
Until May 28
Hatton Gallery
King's Road
Laing Art Gallery
New Bridge Street
This major retrospective of work by Sean Scully, renowned as the master of post-minimalist abstraction, revisits two seminal sites in his career — Newcastle, where he studed painting at the university, and Liverpool. On show in two galleries are works demonstrating the confidence of Scully’s earlier works and his continued fascination with stripes and the spaces in between.
hattongallery.org.uk/laingartgallery.org.uk
LONDON DANCE
Balletboyz: 14 Days
Sadler's Wells
Rosebery Avenue, EC1
April 26-28
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