JAMIE BRITTON recommends that we all buy at least two copies of a remarkable book of poems
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CHRISTINE LINDEY guides us through the vivid expressionism of a significant but apolitical group of pre WWI artists in Germany
Gabriele Münter, Portrait of Marianne von Werefkin, 1909; Listening (Portrait of Jawlensky), 1909
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MARIA DUARTE goes down a bilingual rabbit hole with an impressive Jodie Foster
DAVID HARVIE recommends a selection of Harry Cleaver’s writing that documents working-class activism and offers a method, and a way of understanding and investigating the world
DAVID YEARSLEY is fascinated by the account of four composers who transformed their experiences of the second world war and the Holocaust into deeply moving works of art
PETER MASON thrills to the sound of south London-born Yussef Dayes, and the galaxy of musicians drawn into his orbit
From post-human revolution in Puerto Rico to trans poetics and queer mythmaking, these three books that imagine new ways of being together
Expressionists: Kandinsky, Munter and the Blue Rider
Tate Gallery, London
In 1912 the Blue Rider artist Franz Marc wrote: “We are today seeking behind the veil of nature’s outward appearance hidden things which seem to us more important than the discoveries of the Impressionists... Art always has been and is in its very essence the boldest departure from nature and ‘naturalness’. It is the bridge into the spirit world.” No wonder that their works baffled most of their public which was used to the 19th century’s highly realistic depictions of the visible world.
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