Olivia Laing: Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency [2021] paperback FTRAN Philip has just one focus

Philip has just one focus in life - to protect his young daughter Penny

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Through his artistic directorship of Northampton's Royal & Derngate

Olivia Laing: Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency [2021] paperback FTRAN Philip has just one focus'Never has a publication been more timely' Dazed 'A brave writer whose books open up fundamental questions about life and art' Telegraph In this remarkable, inspiring collection of essays, acclaimed writer and critic Olivia Laing makes a brilliant case for why art matters, especially in the turbulent political weather of the twenty first century. Funny Weather brings together a career's worth of Laing's writing about art and culture, examining their