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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Out of the closet
MICHAL BONCZA enjoys an anthology of subversive cartooning
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
Dirty Rotten Comics
Edited by Kirk Campbell
(Dirty Rotten Comics, £4)
LEGEND has it that when Henry VIII was at stool in Hampton Court palace he spotted a graffiti of Anne Boleyn, legs akimbo, on the toilet door.
Recognising it to be an accurate anatomical representation from someone obviously in the know, he immediately fell out of love and sought revenge.
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ANDY CROFT welcomes the publication of an anthology of recent poems published by the Morning Star, and hopes it becomes an annual event
JONATHAN TAYLOR attempts to disentangle the mind, self and political opinions of a successful bourgeois novelist
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
MARY CONWAY applauds the success of Beth Steel’s bitter-sweet state-of-the-nation play