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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Wading into the Light
JACK CARADOC recommends the remarkable poetry of an NHS worker that reflects on his experience in palliative and end-of-life care
'beep your horn and remember the community demonstrations of support for those same workers'
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
Wading into the Light
by Mel McEvoy
Red Squirrel Press, £10
AS YOU walk or drive past the picket lines of hospital workers exercising their legal rights to strike (although for how much longer we don’t know, as the government seeks to curtail those rights) beep your horn and remember the community demonstrations of support for those same workers.
These are the underpaid, undervalued and under duress workers responsible for the comfort, kindness and care of people who are ill, broken and dying.
These people with their banners asking for fair wages are the same people from the front line of a worldwide pandemic who worked tirelessly, and even died on that front line.
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