October Art and Architecture Writing & Speaking from the Critics’ Circle
In this post we round up the articles, writing and speaking engagements by members of the visual arts and architecture section of The Critics’ Circle in October
The haunting of Philip Guston
By Peter Clossick & Corinna Lotz The Canadian-American-Jewish artist’s development is marked by a feeling of restless change, with the ability to reinvent himself, whilst absorbing a wide range of interests, all with a distinct political edge and sense of...
JENUFA, WELSH NATIONAL OPERA
WNO’s latest staging of Katie Mitchell’s staging of Jenůfa (revived by director Eloise Lally) is given an additional layer of significance by current events. Janáček’s is an opera in a Slav language, in a production with various Slav participants, chronicling...
Macbeth, Royal Opera
By Robert Thicknesse How do you turn a Hammer horror into a tragedy? It confronts every director of Verdi’s take on Shakespeare. Part of it is that the mid-19th century had such different ideas of drama (and of Shakespeare) from us, another that Verdi (and his...