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Michal Boncza
Pic: Thomas Adank/Barbican Art Gallery
Sculpture / 14 July 2026
14 July 2026

MICHAL BONCZA recommends a minimalist installation that prompts intriguing connotations

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Cinema / 18 June 2026
18 June 2026

MARIA DUARTE and MICHAL BONCZA review Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day, Familiar Touch, Nino, and Toy Story 5

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Album reviews / 12 June 2026
12 June 2026

New releases from Simone White, Brass Funkeys, and Souad Massi 

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Art in the Open / 20 March 2026
20 March 2026

MICHAL BONCZA introduces a sculpture that celebrates the end of Franco’s fascist rule while commemorating some of the last victims of its proclivity for mass murder

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Album reviews / 10 March 2026
10 March 2026

New releases from Alex Wilson and Omar Rios Melendez, Hello Cosmos, and Harry Christelis

Marcelo/Armando Solimoes (Wagner Moura) and Dona Sebastiana (Tania Maria) in The Secret Agent (2025) [Pic: IMDb]
Film of the week / 19 February 2026
19 February 2026

MICHAL BONCZA is engrossed by a complex and terrifying, yet respectfully intelligent political thriller set in 1970s Brazil

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Book Review / 3 February 2026
3 February 2026

MICHAL BONCZA welcomes a new version of a classic of British working class literature that should be placed on every school English syllabus

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Album reviews / 21 November 2025
21 November 2025

New releases from Kennedy Administration, Melanie Pain, and Afton Wolfe

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Album reviews / 28 September 2025
28 September 2025

New releases from Alice Di Micele, Tim Grimm, and Tereza Catarov

sitdowners
Art in the Open / 26 September 2025
26 September 2025

Inspired by a photograph, a unique memorial in Michigan immortalises US true labour heroes. MICHAL BONCZA recalls a great story rarely told

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Exhibition review / 22 August 2025
22 August 2025

MICHAL BONCZA highly recommends a revelatory exhibition of work by the doyen of indigenous Australians’ art, Emily Kam Kngwarray

FOTW
Film of the week / 21 August 2025
21 August 2025

Despite an over-sentimental narrative, MICHAL BONCZA applauds an ambitious drama about the Chinese rescue of British POWs in WWII