Category: Reviews

Briefing’s Culture Vulture is impressed by Life Between Islands, Tate Britain’s exhibition of Afro Caribbean art, booking until 31st March, £16 entrance, concessions available. On my recent return to Plague Island I managed to get to a few excellent exhibitions in London. Tate Britain currently has a large display of art produced by Afro Caribbean… Continue reading Life between islands

Larry O’Hara reviews Revolutionary Rehearsals In the Neo-Liberal Age edited by Colin Barker, Gareth Dale & Neil Davidson, Haymarket Press, Chicago 2021. Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci famously urged pessimism of the intellect but optimism of the will, and this book conforms to that. Even at 443 pages the scope is tremendously ambitious: looking at instances… Continue reading The Challenge for Power

Steve Price reviews the Helen Levitt exhibition, In the Street, The Photographers’ Gallery, Ramillies Street, London W1. Helen Levitt has been described as ‘the most famous photographer you’ve probably never heard of’. This exhibition, featuring 130 of her images and running until February 2022, begins to show why that is. Apart from a year in… Continue reading Celebrating street life

Lesley Rodin, Great Yarmouth CLP, reviews Uprising, Steve McQueen’s trilogy of films on the fight against racism in the early 1980s. A follow-up to the critically-acclaimed Small Axe, and co-directed by Steve McQueen and James Rogan, Uprising was another landmark TV production. Three documentary films, screened on primetime BBC One, chronicle three pivotal historical events… Continue reading Fighting back against racism

Richard Price reviews Algiers, Third World Capital: Freedom Fighters, Revolutionaries, Black Panthers by Elaine Mokhtefi, Verso 241pp. £9.99 Born into a secular Jewish family in Depression-era America, Elaine Klein “had little idea of what being Jewish meant” except from the era’s pervasive antisemitism. Her lack of a sense of belonging was deepened by the family… Continue reading Algerian Revolution