Martin Newman
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Martin has worked on the Daily Mirror newsdesk for seven years and writes an art blog for Mirror.co.uk. An Australian who moved to London 14 years ago, he has been reviewing art in Britain for over a decade, but his interests extend to cricket, boxing and social justice.

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Blog Entries by Martin Newman

F.Scott Fitzgerald in London's East End! Classic Novel The Great Gatsby Gets a Music Hall Makeover

Comments | Posted 1 May 2012 | 00:00

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The Great Gatsby at Wilton's Music Hall. Pic: Michelle Robek

In the crumbling surrounds of a music hall in London's East End, beautiful young creatures in fringed and sequinned flapper dresses are dancing on table tops while dapper gents, who might...

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Colour Mixed With Confusion: How Artists Responded to the 2011 England Riots

(6) Comments | Posted 29 March 2012 | 00:00

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Ben Eine's November 2011 work London Riot was painted on a building in Hackney

I was sitting on a beach in Montenegro when my wife got a text saying the pub down the road from our home in London was being burnt...

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Vintage Barbies Rule! Why 1960s Style Beats the Pink Taffeta Princesses of Today

(18) Comments | Posted 8 February 2012 | 23:00

Annie Burke is a dog rescuer. A divorced 58-year-old, former occupational nurse, with an 'Oh my gosh' hand to the mouth kind of mid-west American nature. She's managed to combine her professional experience in caring with a propensity for hoarding, homing, accumulating. It's abandoned dogs right now, but for much...

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Judah Passow's Photographic Exhibition Reveals the Distinct Life of British Jews

Comments | Posted 31 January 2012 | 23:00

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A gay couple dance at the end of the Simchat Torah service at a Liberal synagogue in West London, 2010

Tolerance is a word I hear a lot when people talk about what it is that defines Britain and the British people. On the...

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Frank Zappa as the Big Lebowski, Clint Eastwood as Wolverine? Retro Reimaginings of Classic Movie Posters

(22) Comments | Posted 21 January 2012 | 11:15

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Jack Lemmon, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis in Peter Stults's alternative movie poster for The Hangover

You might never have wondered what it would be like if Clint Eastwood had played Wolverine or Leonard Nimoy got the part of John McClane in Die...

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Fog at London's Finborough Theatre Shines a Light on Broken Families and Child Abuse in Britain's Care System

Comments | Posted 11 January 2012 | 23:00

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Toby Wharton as Fog

I had a friend years ago. We were close for a while, but she was complicated and when she was through with you that was it. So I knew her for a year then never saw her again. She was...

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Oak: One Tree, Three Years, Fifty Paintings - an Interview With Artist Stephen Taylor

(1) Comments | Posted 12 December 2011 | 23:00

When artist Stephen Taylor's mother and father and an ex love all died within a year of each other, his own life began to unravel.

Having spent years studying and teaching painting, quietly honing his craft, he suddenly crashed emotionally and psychologically, under the burden of his misfortune, unsure of...

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