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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I’ve fallen out of love
by FINOLA SCOTT
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
... with my radio.
I do listen, pay attention
to unspooling claims, to spoiling
arguments, to numbers, numbers,
mounting numbers of the dead.
I take heed of current events,
note argument and conflict
as they ricochet around my kitchen.
Honestly, I only rarely take refuge
from the bombs, blood or platitudes.
Trying to decode the language
of war, I read between / behind
enemy lines in every / any accent.
But always it is black / white, as
prevaricating politicians dissemble.
I press buttons, search for strategies
towards peace. Craving resolutions
I try not to weep, but wring my hands
and seek the sanctuary, the cosy comfort,
of my growing echo-chamber.
After Kevin Gilday
Finola Scott is widely published. Info about her 3 pamphlets & lots of poems can be found at facebook group Finola Scott Poems
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