CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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The eloquence of everyday objects
ANDY HEDGECOCK relishes two exhibitions that blur the boundaries between art and community engagement
Daniel Lind-Ramos, Ensamblajes, Nottingham Contemporary
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KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip
Allan Weber, My Order
★★★★★, Nottingham Contemporary
Daniel Lind-Ramos, Ensamblajes
★★★★★, Nottingham Contemporary
DONALD TRUMP’s philistinism is apparent in his fondness for self-aggrandising kitsch, but the Kennedy Center putsch — in which Trump unilaterally installed himself as chair of Washington DC’s temple of the fine arts — suggests an understanding that culture can shape the national psyche.
Perhaps we should expect further co-option of performing arts institutions in support of the MAGA cause. Will the list of Trump-approved artists be limited to Confederate flag flaunter Kid Rock, swastika T-shirt pusher Kanye West and deportation cheerleader Ted Nugent?
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