MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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An artist of his time
Bernadette Hyland sees the directness and accessibility of KEITH HARING’S art as an important tool for communicating social and political messages to the widest of audiences
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
Keith Haring
Tate Liverpool
★★★★★
KEITH Haring (1958–1990) was an American artist and political activist. In this wonderful retrospective we really get to see the way in which he wanted to make art as accessible as possible to the majority of people.
He once said: “There is an audience that is being ignored. They are open to art when it is open to them.”
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