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
“We need to safeguard those who every day struggle with the right to imagination”
CHRIS SEARLE interviews jazz pianist ALEXANDER HAWKINS
“ALTHOUGH I also value the piano as a harp in a box, I love to think of it as 88 tuned drums.”
So says one of the true nonpareils of British piano jazz, Alexander Hawkins.
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