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LS Lowry review – matchstick men, or the broken denizens of a smog-filled hellscape?
Monday, October 26, 2026 · 4:03 PM
MK Gallery, Milton Keynes With his heaps of mud, decaying sheds and chimney-filled skies, Lowry depicts northern England as a spirit-crushing dystopia While people queue at the British Museum to see the Battle of Hastings , this excellent survey of LS Lowry at the MK Gallery in Milton Keynes takes you back to another, maybe more decisive part of our past – the age when Britain was the most industrialised society on E
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