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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Wood Festival, Braziers Park Oxfordshire
Small but perfectly formed world music event punches well above its weight
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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
WOOD festival, now in its 11th year, is a modest and family-friendly festival held in the beautiful grounds of Braziers Park in Oxfordshire.
Legend has it that brothers Joe and Robin Bennett, founders of the indie-rock extravaganza Truck Festival, launched Wood once they and their friends started having kids and wanted a means of initiating their young into festival culture in a less ear-piercing way.
So Wood has remained small-scale, with plenty of children’s activities and a blend of music — largely folk and Americana — reaching out across the generations.
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