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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Gender-bending night a comic treat in Bristol
Frenetically funny: Guy Hughes and Dawn Sievewright
[Mihaela Bodlovic]
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
Twelfth Night
Bristol Old Vic
WITH gender politics rarely out of the news, this highly topical exploration of Shakespeare’s play is set in a hippy, psychedelic house party where revellers extend their stay when they find a copy of Twelfth Night and decide to perform it.
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