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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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
Management Song
hang pig’s skull over conned
roads, polity of glass. what’s waste,
what’s work, the treatment plant’s
septage. I’m implicated in the tip, heap
of dusked cities: landfill: screen bicker:
snoozed lyric. my little viral song.
if I eat in coffee outlets. nervous ads,
earth-sick, potential in burnt tenements; we
working seethe eachself. safe planes
browsing bluescreen. elect to blue-sky
think: division
fault, non-maskable
interrupt. hoaxed
speech, our.
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