ON stage were three poets, each one holding a book the cover of which contains the color red and green in the form of a ribbon. From the center of the knot was a white flower emanating from three leaves. For that day, the red and green colors meant Hungary.…
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David Hockney is, for a variety of reasons, a British National Treasure. Why? It is stunningly evident in the special exhibition of paintings done last year, which explores, sequentially, the arrival of spring unfurling over three months in his four-acre garden in rural France. What has emerged in this heartfelt series is an absorbing and interesting pattern of visual meditations on, as the title has it, the arrival of spring (Normandy 2020). Hockney has also been enthused by the iPad. Engineers from Apple refined digital brushes for the artist, and he also discovered new layers of colour and a wider spectrum of digital colour, particularly in the greens, which intrigued and delighted him, encouraging experiment.
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Waypoints: A Journey on Foot by Rob Martineau (Cape, £16.99 )
At the age of 27, Martineau, a former lawyer in London, quit his job and embarked on a 1,000 mile walk with a backpack through West Africa, from Accra to Ouidah on the Beninese Coast. This is his story, beautifully-written, of how his pilgrimage of sorts changed him forever. In a good way.
Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism by Kathleen Stock (Little Brown, £16.99)
Stock tackles several key axioms of trans activism, from the idea that everyone has an inner gender identity that might not match their biological sex to the pressure on people to acknowledge and legally protect gender identity instead of biological sex. A clear-sighted analysis in tricky territory.
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