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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Writer JAN WOOLF on delights and dodginess, from Devs to Captain Tom's NHS fundraiser
EXCELLENT: Devs
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
MY CONSUMPTION of media this week has been irregular and random, a thing of shreds and patches.
I limit corona coverage and won’t watch junk, which rules out most TV — except for Devs on BBC2, excellent. I concentrate instead on live streaming and the feeling of collective consciousness, singling out a play reading of Somebody Else by Jonathan Chadwick.
With actors Laura Lake Adebisi and Ruth Lass, it’s about the relationship between a refugee and her helper, and it has great emotional truth as each actor zooms in at us, as if we were the other character.
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