The weekly arts magazine

The Smuggled Masterpiece
Unpublished in Russia, hailed as a masterpiece in the West, Cancer Ward, Part 2 was published in this country last Thursday. Solzhenitsyn's earlier book The
First Circle is claimed by critics to be the greatest Russian novel of this century, and the first part of Cancer Ward increased his reputation here.
James Mossman investigates the extraordinary circumstances of the journey of these manuscripts to Britain, and talks to some of the people closely involved.

Victor Pasmore
Victor Pasmore already had a high reputation behind him when, in the mid-1940s, he turned to abstract painting. His present exhibition at the Marlborough New London Gallery marks another turning-point in that for the first time it includes free-standing sculpture.
He talks to Robert Hughes

(Colour)