Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Arts ahead: May 9
John Yeadon 9/5/18
ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
The Star's critics ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA reviews I Am Love, The Penguin Lessons, Freaky Tales, The Thicket
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
Peter Mitchell's photography reveals a poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
COVENTRY EXHIBITION
What's the Meaning of This?
John Yeadon at 70
Newsroom Gallery, CET Building
Corporation St
May 18-June 15
IN THIS exhibition, John Yeadon looks back to his 1984 Dirty Tricks exhibition at the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum in Coventry and compares this work with his recent paintings. Dirty Tricks was a controversial exhibition of his grotesque realist, large allegorical “history paintings” which provoked both Tory outrage and acclaim from everyone else.
At the high point of Aids paranoia and gay “blame,” Yeadon's “in-yer-face” paintings challenged preconceptions of sexuality and society. This exhibition compares those paintings with his recent work and asks whether things changed. Is society more tolerant, open-minded and liberal at a time when Coventry approaches the year of City of Culture? Is it more enlightened and less provincial?
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