LONDON GRIP international cultural magazine


CONTENTS PAGE

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ART EXHIBITIONS ON

LONDON GRIP:


James N. Butcher

Watercolours: A Late-Life Adventure


Charles Girdham

Photography


Adam Hahn

Portraits in oil


David Hirschowitz Photography


Michael Horovitz

Retrospective Art Exhibition


Phillip Kotokwa

Sculpture from Zimbabwe


Zygmunt Nowak-Solinski

Photography


Cathy MacAulay-Cornish  installation:

Walking in Bloomsbury


Daphne Plessner

“Girlie” Paintings


Jacques Touitou

Paintings


Sandra Walker, R.I.

Watercolours

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EXHIBITION REVIEWS


Michael Davenport reviews SEDUCED  at the Barbican Art Gallery


Teresa Howard

in ROMANIA:

on George Matei Cantacuzino and

Ilinca Cantacuzino


Duncan Prowse

Hadrian & Babylon at the British Museum


Ruth Rosengarten

Painting & Photography


Storm Thorgerson,

maker of

Pink Floyd’s image

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THE WRITTEN WORD


Michael Davenport

Two poems for our times


Seeargh Macaulay

The Trouble with Lingo

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FILM, THEATRE, MUSIC


Helen Donlon on female sexuality in Brian De Palma's 

The Black Dahlia  and Body Double


Helen Donlon on film director Philippe Garrel


Helen Donlon on Ibiza

  1. •opening season

  2. •mid-season

  3. •closing season


Helen Donlon on Savage Grace


Patricia Morris

reviews Redacted -

Brian de Palma’s

latest film on Iraq


Anna Furse on

Performance Making


Pamela Nomvete interviewed by Jessica Campbell


B.J.Rahn on Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream

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POLITICS, ECONOMICS & SOCIETY


AFRICA

João de Pina-Cabral

Racialised Africa


My May  ’68

London Grip

contributors


Duncan Prowse

The 1960s


BRAZIL

Ruling about Race -

An Open Letter


BRITAIN

Duncan Prowse

argues against

identity cards


IRAQ

Hayder Abdul-Hussein an anthropologist in Basra


SOUTH AFRICA

Patricia Morris

(1) The Poverty of Power

(2)KwaZulu-Natal

(3)Johannesburg

(4)The Cape


David Philips -

The Freedom Charter

David Philips on the

TRC (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)


YEMEN

Gabriele vom Bruck

on men and women

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PSYCHOTHERAPY


Jane McChrystal on appropriate choices

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SPORT


The Ian Hollings monthly column


Snooker’s conquest of China.

l  o  n  d  o  n     g  r  i  p

retrospective art exhibition


MICHAEL HOROVITZ

(1)  Unicorn in the Garden (after Thurber), 1966.

Oil, enamel, collage, on card (48 x 58 cm)

(3)  Television Overbored,  1995

Oil and enamel on board (58.5 x 71 cm)

(5)  Wordweb, 1968. 

Oil and collage on canvas  (100 x 100 cm) 

(2)  Open Market, 1964 & 1989.

Enamel, oil, feathers, collage, on board.  All materials collected over two days around Portobello Road market, London W11. (96.5 x 122 cm)  

(6)  Red Sea Crossing, 1963.

Oil and enamel on board  (74 x 124 cm)  

Michael Horovitz

is a well-known British poet, performer and artist.

The paintings on this page are a selection from his current art exhibition, a retrospective of work made 1967 - 2008, shown at

Broadway Bookshop,

6 Broadway Market,

Hackney, E8 4QJ.

Tuesdays through Saturdays (020 7241 1626).


Many of Michael’s books are on sale there, including his recent

A New Waste Land,

a book of poetry and critical politics, illustrated and designed by the author.


See:  www.poetryolympics.com Email:

info@poetryolympics.com

  1. (4)Frame on Frame, 1967.  Oil, enamel, emulsion,collage, on canvas (83 x 105 cm)