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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Shining example of socialist practice
A history of an innovative Liverpool medical centre shows how its radical principles helped it meet the needs of one of the most deprived inner-city communities in Britain, writes SYLVIA HIKINS
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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
A Radical Practice in Liverpool: The rise and fall of Princes Park Health Centre
by Katy Gardner and Susanna Graham-Jones
(Writing on the Wall, £9.99)
THIS book is not simply about medical practice but about people, the community living in the heart of the inner-city area of Liverpool 8.
The neighbourhood reflects all the consequences of social and economic deprivation but as a community it was willing to rise up and fight back, as it did during the Toxteth riots in 1981.
In the centre of Liverpool 8 sits Princes Park Health Centre (PPHC), opened on St Patrick’s Day in 1977. It was the brainchild and passion of doctor Cyril Taylor — communist, activist, Liverpool City councillor, chair of Liverpool Social Services and much more.
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