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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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
Mrs Despard Gets My Vote
Nine Elms polling station, 14th December 1918
Truth told, I’m not savvy to the half
of what she says—but o what silver-
tongued fire she breathes! And what she’s done
for us Nine Elms lot is worthy of a saint.
There’s some as reckon
she’s earned her place in heaven
by mere fact of dwelling in our heaving
godforsaken corner of the globe.
And though she shows herself a lady
in her bearing, Mrs Despard ditched
all airs and graces long ago.
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