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Meet the Author Behind the Educational Workbooks Aimed at Filling the Gap on Black History

Joseph Edelin, M.Ed. shares his reasoning for creating a series of educational workbooks that fill in the gaps of Black History.

Welsh election: Voices of disabled people must be heard

Artforum International

Guy Brett mailing Signals Newsbulletin in London, 1964. Photo: © Clay Perry/England & Co. AT A 2008 TATE MUSEUM TALK on Chilean artist Eugenio Dittborn, Guy Brett recalled a studio visit during which Dittborn kept fussing with unwieldy canvases, growing frustrated. “Fucking rigidity,” Dittborn had exclaimed, bashing the canvases to the wall. This aversion to the static, a trait endemic to the artists he championed, is just as applicable to Brett himself. The critic and curator had an abhorrence for the rigid, contempt for anything that refused to bend to the shape of the world. He was attracted to vitality, to art that marked, as he put it, “a new relationship with life.”

Constantly curious, uninterested in the market-led view : pioneering curator and writer Guy Brett has died, aged 78

Guy Brett (right) in 1966 with the artist Takis © Clay Perry, England & Co gallery, London The UK curator and writer Guy Brett, who broadened the art historical canon by producing important exhibitions and publications on key Latin American and Asian artists, has died aged 78. Born in Richmond, Yorkshire, 1942, Brett began his career as a critic at the Times where he worked from 1964 to 1975. From 1981 to 1983 he was also the visual arts editor at the London weekly magazine City Limits. His exhibition Transcontinental: Nine Latin American Artists, organised at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, UK, in 1990, reflected his multidisciplinary and internationalist outlook. The British-Indian artist Sutapa Biswas tells

Beryl Cook, queer history and Dolly Parton: gallery director Joe Scotland on his cultural influences

Jo Spence and Terry Dennett’s series, Remodelling Photo History, from 1982. It is such a smart, funny and almost cutting series. I was fortunate to be a part of a small team working on Spence’s first UK retrospective at Studio Voltaire and SPACE in 2012, 20 years after her death. She has been such an important figure in both my professional and personal life. If you are not familiar with her practice, I would urge you to be. Which cultural experience changed the way you see the world? I was 15 when Dennis Potter’s Lipstick on Your Collar appeared on Channel 4 in 1993. It was full of desire, lip-syncing and mundanity. The theme of conflict between the old order and the new post-war generation spoke to my teenage self. This led me to Potter’s other television masterpieces,

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