MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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Courage with her convictions
US painter ALICE NEEL remained true to her aesthetic and political principles throughout her artistic life, says Christine Lindey
PAINTING WITH INTEGRITY: (L to R) Linda Nochlin and Daisy, 1973 and Pat Whalen, 1935
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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
ALICE NEEL (1900-1984) was a born rebel. Early on in life, she escaped the strictures of her small Pennsylvanian home town which, she said, “was utterly beautiful in the spring but there was no-one to paint it.”
She had wanted to be an artist since childhood but as her family were not well off she felt obliged to take a secretarial course and studied art at night school while saving up for full-time study.
Once at art college, like many a good-looking and vivacious girl, she was soon seduced, married and pregnant. There followed many years of emotional highs and lows from an eventful love life.
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