The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
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A portrait of the artist as an old man
CHRISTINE LINDEY is moved by the panache and the ingrained pain present in a remarkable series of self-portraits
Self Portrait II, 2022, graphite on paper; Self Portrait IV, 2022, acrylic on board
[Courtesy Frankie Rossi Art]
This right-wing conspiracy theory is used to justify the coercive measures against gender, race and labour rights that best serve capitalism, attests GAVIN O’TOOLE
KENNY MONROSE recommends a new exhibition that highlights the significance of Black British music
ANGUS REID is bowled over by an exuberant film about the making of Keith Jarrett’s legendary concert
MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
Frank Auerbach: Twenty Self-Portraits
Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert
NOW aged 92 and still painting, Frank Auerbach is showing 20 self-portraits painted during the past five years, at his new exhibition at Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert in London.
He was born in Berlin in 1931 to Jewish German parents, who managed to send him to Britain as a child in 1939. They saved his life.
They sent their son to a progressive, multiracial and multinational school in Faversham, Kent, founded by a German Jewish-Quaker who employed many German-Austrian refugees or English conscientious objectors as teachers, and accepted a mixture of refugees and English children.
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