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Contents

News UK arts news

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Defining the Art of Illustration

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Thea Gilmore

53 Forced Entertainment

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Features Irvine Welsh

Exploring controversy & exposing reality

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Faïïza Guèène

Untold stories & contrasting worlds

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Defining the Art of Illustration

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Europe’s leading forum for contemporary illustration and graphic art

Games, Theory & Art

A New Modern Perspective

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Pop-Art & Mass Culture

Mashups: The new exhibition curated by Stuart Semple

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Reality is what you make of it

Yoshitomo Nara + graf

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Personal dreams & social aspirations 37 Catherine Yass

Thea Gilmore

Honesty and Intimacy Underground Railroad

Transcending genres

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White Denim

No ordinary pair of jeans

Port O’Brien

Raucous Sea-faring Anthems & Constant Collaboration

My Winnipeg

The first docu-fantasia by Guy Maddin

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motiroti

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Filmmaking & Cultural Dynamics Forced Entertainment 53 Experimental Theatre: Provoking Ideas

Live on stage

Theatre round-up

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New books Denis Kehoe

Excerpt of new book Nights Beneath the Nation

Reviews Books

Music

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