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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TIM SAYER and ANNEMARIE NORTON tell Christine Lindey why they're donating their unique collection of art works to a Wakefield art gallery
Willard Boepple, Douglas, 1992, painted steel and Kenneth Martin Chance, Chance, order, Change
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
RETIRED BBC journalist Tim Sayer and his wife Annemarie Norton, theatrical costume maker and former ballet dancer, live in a modest north London terrace.
Its exterior looks much like neighbouring houses but stepping inside is to be transported into a wondrous domain whose every surface is crammed with art.
Paintings, drawings, photographs, prints, sculptures, antiquities and tribal art by predominantly living British artists greet you from all walls, ceilings, both sides of doors, floors and the staircase. They’re even in the bathroom and toilet.
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JAN WOOLF ponders the works and contested reputation of the West German sculptor and provocateur, who believed that everybody is potentially an artist
OLIVER SNELLING, a south London stonecarver and yeoman stonemason, relates how he is helping bring about a new festival next month
Paul MacGee of Manifesto Press invites you to a special launch on Saturday August 2.