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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Advice to a Conspirator by Chris Norris
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
“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce."
You’ve told us lots of times “it’s do or die”
For you, this Brexit thing, so if the “do”
Bit doesn’t work, however hard you try,
Then don’t despair: there’s always Option Two.
I know, you’ll wriggle out of it, you’ll lie,
Prevaricate, and bluster, but if you
Seek one good deed to be remembered by
Then it’s that second choice you'll carry through.
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