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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
Art

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
Art

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
Reviews

Horace Tapscott

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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