CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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ANGUS REID reels before a gigantic survey of the life and work of Peter Howson
DEMONIC ENERGY: (L to R) Regimental Bath, 1985; Trinity, 2020
[(L to R) Antonia Reeve - Flowers Gallery]
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
When the Apple Ripens: Peter Howson at 65: A Retrospective
City Art Centre, Edinburgh
FROM the start, Peter Howson’s paintings have depicted men with exaggerated muscles, distorted limbs and grim, fanatical expressions.
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