To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
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Haunting insights on blindness
MARIA DUARTE recommends an emotive account of what happens to a man after he loses his sight
If you can see past the relentless commodification you will be rewarded by enormously powerful work, suggests JENNY MITCHELL
CHRIS SEARLE revels in the one-off collaboration between an American polymath and a British Muslim, and detects the presence of their revolutionary forebear
GORDON PARSONS revels in an ebullient production of Shakespeare’s magical comedy
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a thoughtful analysis of the Erdogan regime, viewed through the evolving history of a neighbourhood in Istanbul
GORDON PARSONS regrets the price, but is dazzled by an outstandingly ambitious study of the way art restoration in particular, and culture in general was weaponised by the Nazis
Notes on Blindness (U)
Directed by Pete Middleton and James Spinney
4/5
THIS extraordinarily frank and candid documentary, based on the audio diary theologian and academic John M Hull made when struck down by blindness, is incredibly illuminating.
Film-makers Pete Middleton and James Spinney took his recordings and have actors lip-syncing his words and those of his family, delivering a gripping and haunting personal account of one man’s experience which is at times heartbreaking.
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