11 MAY 1974, page 20

Art Vulgar And Fun Evan Anthony

It's usually a toss-up whether the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy is going to be hailed as "what fun" or slammed as "how vulgar." Let us compromise with a "how vulgar,......

Will Waspe

Reviews by art critics of exhibitions in which other art critics have had some sort of hand are invariably laudatory or, at worst, when praise is ludicrously out of the......

Cinema

Southern discomfort Duncan FaHowell Presumably the film A Streetcar Named Desire (Cinecenta, 'X') has been re-released to synchronise with the revival of the play in the West......