For an artist whose career is based on confronting the spaces we either ignore or deliberately avoid, the now-demolished BBC office that reputedly inspired Room 101 in George Orwell’s 1984 is perfect subject-matter.
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From stylised art nouveau temptresses to giant Tintin cartoons, Brussels has an established tradition of putting art on the outside of its buildings as well as inside. The capital’s newest gallery in a former brewery in Molenbeek – the neighbourhood notorious as a breeding ground of the Paris and Brussels terror attacks – captures that spirit.
A temporary installation in Bloomsbury Square is a powerful reminder of the work of exiled Russian poets in the last century
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • installations, poetry, politics, year 2017 0 • Tags: installations, Michael Bartholomew-Biggs, poetry, politics