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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Attila the Stockbroker diary: May 2, 2024
ATTILA reports on a valiant attempt at removing the ghastly Tory majority on Adur Council, which “has festered there for decades like a pair of mouldy underpants” and on a more cheerful note he salutes The Men they Couldn’t Hang on their 40 years in the business of resistance
Attila in front of the Shepherds Bush Empire in London
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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
UNFORTUNATELY the result probably won’t be in until after we go to press, but I’d describe the mood as “quietly confident” — not just of her winning her seat again but of us finally removing the ghastly Tory majority on Adur Council which has festered there for decades like a pair of mouldy underpants.
We’ll see — I’ll send the news through when we have it, and maybe it can be squeezed onto the end of this week’s column. The Tories’ voter-ID trick really is disgusting, especially the bit which says that OAP bus passes and Oyster cards are valid but student ones aren’t.
Naked voter suppression in action.
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