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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‘It is of extreme importance that artists respond to the times we are living in’
Vocalist and 'oral provocateur' GRASSY NOEL tells Chris Searle what inspires his extraordinary new album
ECLECTIC TASTE: Grassy Noel
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
ON GRASSY Noel’s new album TemPestuous Times, cut with supporting group APE, there’s real quality in the unique sonic montage that he achieves.
His editor and sound designer Lu Edmunds put in an enormous amount of work in sound-sculpting the tracks. He says: “For him it’s ‘horspiel,’ a mental movie, an odyssey in space and time.”
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