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Strong Silent Type: Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt Configures Language, Art & Politics

An enigmatic East German artist used a typewriter and stamps to quietly disrupt the boundaries of poetry and graphic design. Geoff Cowart travelled to Potsdam to examine her creative disobedience and find out why she quit
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Things Fall Apart: Mona Hatoum Builds The Impossible

A large sculpture by the London-based Lebanon-born artist poses some lofty questions about our precarious and unsteady existence, finds Geoff Cowart
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The Bookmaker: Gerhard Richter At Ninety

To celebrate Richter’s life in print, museums and archives across Germany join forces to throw a novel 90th birthday party. Geoff Cowart visits Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie for the festivities
Art

Midnight Marauders: The Grey Organisation Return To The Scene Of The Crime

Thirty-seven years ago, a midnight attack by a provocative art collective shocked London and the swanky dealers of Mayfair. Geoff Cowart takes a trip back in time to The Mayor Gallery

Art

Teenage Kicks: Sue Webster’s Banshees Obsession

In a whirlwind of spectral paints and shocked black wigs, London artist Sue Webster watched as her obsession with Siouxsie Sioux sprang to life
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With The Pan-Afrikan Peoples Arkestra – Live At I.U.C.C.

A new re-issue by Soul Jazz of legendary Watts bandleader Horace Tapscott strikes the right note, finds Geoff Cowart
Art

Say It Loud: The Art Of Black Power

From Tate Modern's Soul of a Nation show to Soul Jazz's Afro-Centric Visions compilation, Geoff Cowart explores the images and sonics of the black power revolution
Art

Concrete Poetry: Robert Montgomery’s Hammersmith Poem

As Robert Montgomery unveils his latest commission at Hammersmith Town Hall, Geoff Cowart catches up with the Scottish-born artist to chat modernism, Malevich, and metaphor
Art

Off The Grid: Francois Morellet At Ninety

On the ninetieth birthday of the pathbreaking French painter, Geoff Cowart surveys two exhibitions dedicated to the hallucinatory work of the co-founder of the Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel
A Quietus Interview

Chants For Socialists: Darren Hayman On William Morris

Geoff Cowart speaks to Darren Hayman about socialist song and the influence of William Morris. Photographs courtesy of Matt Grayson

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