Christine Okoth
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Christine Okoth · At Tate Britain: On Hurvin Anderson (opens the original)
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The Handsworth neighbourhood of Birmingham was once home to two 100-foot-long swimming pools, designed for use by the city’s working class. Their size – ‘somewhat unusual for an establishment constructed some fifty years ago’, as a 1951 report put it – earned ‘the gratitude of all swimmers’. The Grove Lane Baths closed in 1985, but are recreated in paintings by Hurvin Anderson, recently on display at Tate Britain. In Audition (1998), an early work depicting the pool at Wyndley Leisure Centre, th
Christine Okoth · At Tate Britain: On Hurvin Anderson (opens the original)
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The Handsworth neighbourhood of Birmingham was once home to two 100-foot-long swimming pools, designed for use by the city’s working class. Their size – ‘somewhat unusual for an establishment constructed some fifty years ago’, as a 1951 report put it – earned ‘the gratitude of all swimmers’. The Grove Lane Baths closed in 1985, but are recreated in paintings by Hurvin Anderson, recently on display at Tate Britain. In Audition (1998), an early work depicting the pool at Wyndley Leisure Centre, th
Christine Okoth · How Things Should Go: Margaret Busby’s Books (opens the original)
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One of the prized possessions in Margaret Busby’s childhood home in Ghana was a steel-grey transistor radio. For much of the year she and her siblings attended boarding school in England, but during the holidays the radio connected her to ‘other cultures, other musics’. In an essay written for the Radio 3 programme Free Thinking in 2008, now reprinted as ‘The Joy of Radio’ in Part of the Story, a collection of Busby’s writings from the 1960s onwards, she recalls what happened when the radio bro
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