Set in London in the 1960s and 70s, The Girl in the Green Jumper, is both a memoir and art book written and compiled by Renske Mann, who for twenty years, lived with British figurative artist, Cyril Mann. In 1959 Renske van Slooten, as she was then, left The Hague for London. She met Mann the…
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Michael Armitage at the Royal Academy
The artist Michael Armitage presents his views on Kenyan politics and society, and the legacy of colonialism in phantasmagoric paintings that delight and unnerve. Guest review by Sarah Mulvey Featured: Detail from Pathos and the Twilight of the Idle, 2019 Michael Armitage is an artist of mixed heritage; he was born in Nairobi to a…