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"Remembering Arthur Miller" Print E-mail
By Phil Mitchinson   
Tuesday, 03 January 2006
Phil Mitchinson reviews a new book Remembering Arthur Miller and interviews one of the contributors, the well known director David Thacker who worked with the American playwright on numerous occasions and was the artistic director of the famous Young Vic theatre in London. Miller's courageous stand against McCarthyism is well known but perhaps less generally recognised is how important an influence politics in general played in his life and writings.
 
Fernando Moleres and Lewis Hine “Child Workers” and “Child Labour” Exhibition Print E-mail
By Bjorn Ovrevik in Newcastle   
Tuesday, 25 October 2005
Moleres and Hine are two photographers, the first contemporary the second from the first half of the 20th century, who have accumulated a large number of photographs dedicated to exposing child labour around the world. There work is presently being exhibited at the Side Gallery, 9 The Side, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and will continue until November 19. Here we provide a review of the exhibition.
 
Review of Pakistani poet Javed Shaheen's “I Ask the Night” Print E-mail
By Javed Shaheen   
Monday, 10 October 2005
“I Ask the Night” is a translation of selected poems by Javed Shaheen, the famous Pakistani poet, published by Struggle Publications in Lahore. Javed Shaheen witnessed the terrible bloodshed at the time of the partition of India and that marked him for the rest of his life. Ever since then he has sided with the downtrodden and oppressed.
 
The Frida Kahlo Exhibition at the Tate Modern: A brief biography and review of her works Print E-mail
By Harry Whittaker   
Friday, 07 October 2005
In a few days the Frida Kahlo Exhibition at the Tate Modern comes to an end. If you are in London you have a last chance to go and see it. Here Harry Whittaker looks at the life and works of this artist.
 
The 400th anniversary of Don Quixote - Spain in the age of Cervantes - Part One Print E-mail
By Alan Woods   
Friday, 15 July 2005
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the first publication of Don Quixote, the greatest masterpiece of Spanish literature. The working class, the class that has the greatest interest in fighting to defend culture, should celebrate this anniversary enthusiastically. This was the first great modern novel, written in a language that ordinary men and women could understand.
 
The 400th anniversary of Don Quixote - Spain in the age of Cervantes - Part Two Print E-mail
By Alan Woods   
Friday, 15 July 2005
Every ruling class entertains the same illusions about itself. In their imaginations they are conquering heroes, when in reality they are involved in the most sordid and dirty business. Cervantes reflects the breaking down of the old feudal society and a transition towards a capitalist society and morality, based on money not rank.
 
Arthur Miller, death of a committed artist Print E-mail
By Maarten Vanheuverwyn   
Friday, 18 February 2005
Last week, Arthur Miller, the dramatist who wrote plays that dealt with big moral and political questions in America, died. The legendary playwright, who continued his commitment to art and politics until the end of his life, was 89.
 
Capitalist fetishism and the decay of art Print E-mail
By Alan Woods   
Tuesday, 16 December 2003
Someone has said that one of the criteria for winning the Turner Prize is not to be understood. The philosophy behind this is: the less I am understood, the better the art.Yet the kind of art that wins the Turner competition also has merit. They have the merit of holding up a mirror to the society that produced them, and saying: “This is what you are, and this is all you are capable of producing.” These works point out to us that beneath the sleek, comfortable bourgeois surface of modern society, horrors are lurking: dead vermin, murder, death and decay.
 
Capitalism and Art, or they know the price, but not the value! Print E-mail
By Mordachai Peargut   
Wednesday, 05 November 2003
A contribution by Mordachai Peargut.
 
Iraqi museums, art and the values of the market place Capitalism - a threat to culture Print E-mail
By Alan Woods   
Friday, 25 April 2003
In the present epoch, the bourgeoisie is no longer capable of advancing human civilization, but the decay of the capitalist system threatens to poison every aspect of social life. The most heartbreaking example of the way in which capitalism is destroying the cultural heritage of mankind is what has just happened in Iraq.
 
US looting of artefacts in Iraq confirmed Print E-mail
By Fred Weston   
Friday, 25 April 2003
Yesterday’s British ‘The Independent’ published an article confirming that looting, on the part of US troops and even some journalists, of precious works of art has indeed been taking place in Iraq.
 
Italian Futurism and Fascism: How an artistic trend anticipated a counterrevolutionary tendency Print E-mail
By Alan Woods   
Wednesday, 23 April 2003
The connection between Italian Futurism and fascism is well known. Alan Woods looks at the psychology of the Italian bourgeois and petit bourgeois intellectuals in the period before and during the First World War that gave rise to this singular phenomenon. It is an object lesson on how art and politics can become inextricably linked, and how this mixture arises from a definite social and class basis.
 
Leon Trotsky on Futurism Print E-mail
By Leon Trotsky   
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This is an essay by Trotsky, taken from Chapter 4 of Literature and Revolution published in 1924, in which he looks at the development of the Futurist trend in art, looking in particular at its Russian variant, but also touching on the Italian.
 
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