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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Arts round-up 2014
Star critics Peter Lindley, Susan Darlington and Paul Foley on the dance, music and theatre that’s impressed this year
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
Dance: Peter Lindley
Disbelief greeted the news that Sylvie Guillem would retire next year after a final world tour but it was already known in June that her legendary performance of Push with Russell Maliphant and the truly amazing Two at London’s Coliseum theatre were to be her last ever revival of these brilliant contemporary works.
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