STEPHANIE BROWN draws attention to the hidden labour of the female embroiderers, and how a 19th century replica made no such error
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The electronic music fest returns with abundant and gripping surprises
DAZZLING: Caterina Barbieri and friends
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MIK SABIERS revels in a band that ploughs an idiosyncratic furrow of expletive laden, guitar-driven alt rock
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RON JACOBS recommends an important book that enhances the oppositional theories put forth by Fanon and, in doing so, remakes psychology itself
JAN WOOLF relishes an extensive history of our long relationship to trees in Britain that underlines the current emergency
DIANE WATT argues that while evidence of sex is not there, a 16th‑century lesbian poet could be Scotland’s answer to Gentleman Jack
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Southbank’s Queen Elizabeth Hall and Printworks, London
LONDON’S electronic music festival set in brutalist buildings around the capital got off to a grand start on its launch in 2019.
Finally returning after a two-year pandemic-influenced delay, the festival has been pared back somewhat to just three events, but its vision to showcase some of the most unique experimental electronic artists out there is still very much intact.
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