Whatever They Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not might seem like an unusual collection of work to be found in a tiny museum in a small town in South Wales, but David Garner is a somewhat unusual figure in the field of British modern art.
To mark Holocaust Memorial Day this year the BBC is showing this film version of Antony Sher’s award-winning performance of the memoirs of Primo Levi.
Proof, if more were needed, that hip-hop has moved decisively away from the vacuous "bling" phase, comes in the form of Lupe Fiasco.
Last week saw a series of high profile protests against funding cuts announced by the Arts Council of England at the end of last year.
"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin."
Manifesto of 17 October 1905, painted in 1911 by Ilya Repin, is just one of a host of rarely seen Russian masterpieces being exhibited at the Royal Academy of Art in London from this Saturday.
This play tells the true story of Nadira Alieva, who was a drug runner, teacher and lap dancer in Uzbekistan before she fell for Craig Murray, the British ambassador, and came to Britain with him when he was sacked for exposing government torture.
"Stan, don’t let them tell you what to do." This, according to the Nobel Prize winning writer Harold Pinter, was "one of the most important lines I’ve ever written... I’ve lived that line all my damn life".
Respect is hosting this special showing in London of director Nick Broomfield’s as yet unreleased film detailing events on 19 November 2005 that led to the massacre of 24 Iraqis by US troops in the city of Haditha.
This year sees the 30th anniversary of the legendary Anti Nazi League/Rock Against Racism carnival at Victoria Park that drew some 80,000 to performances from The Clash, The Tom Robinson Band, Steel Pulse and X‑Ray Spex.
The new year will see a host of films, exhibitions and theatre work of interest to socialists.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder – widely considered the greatest German director to emerge since the Second World War – is the subject of a huge DVD reissue programme at the moment.
