The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
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When architecture meets civic aspiration
ANGUS REID shares the awe he felt when visiting Oodi, Helsinki’s new central library
'Part of the city, and not really indoors'
[Tuomas Uusheimo/ALA Architects]
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
IN 1961, the left-wing theatre-maker Joan Littlewood and the architect Cedric Price produced working drawings and a manifesto for the “Fun Palace.”
The idea was for a building that could nurture both the creativity and political aspirations of the working class. Sixty years later exactly such a building exists in central Helsinki.
In Littlewood’s words the fun palace is somewhere “to handle tools, paint, babies, machinery … to sit out over space and tune into what’s happening in the city … to start a riot, to begin a painting or just lie back and stare at the sky.”
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