DRAWING BOARD
October 2011
From the 1940s onwards the Polish-born Jewish painter Josef Herman (1911-2000) was a significant figure in British art. His path here, however, was a helter-skelter one. He fled his native Warsaw both to escape the authorities (wh
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September 2011
In the aftermath of the destruction wreaked in south-east London in early August, Standpoint contributor Peter Whittle returned to his hometown with photographer Malcolm Crowthers. He found a community torn apart by multiculturalism, one
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September 2011
The New York-based British photographer Steve Pyke's new book is the result of a 20-year project to create a "gallery of minds: a series of portraits of the "Philosophy Tribe", a community, Pyke argues
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July/August 2011
Susanna and the Elders, the woodcut pictured, shows me on the right and the painter Tim Behrens on the left, admiring a pretty waitress in a bar. We are being observed by some younger people. The paintings are still lifes made up of obje
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