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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Letters from Latin America with Leo Boix: June 4, 2024
Femicide and the search for justice in Mexico: a book by Cristina Rivera Garza; and a travel book through Latin America by Welsh poet Richard Gwyn
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
HUMAN RIGHTS organisations estimate that in 2022 there were at least 4,050 femicides in 26 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. In Mexico alone, at least two women die per day as victims of femicide, making the situation even more dire.
Femicide is defined as the most extreme form of gender-based violence and is the “intentional killing of women because they are women,” “committed by partners or ex-partners, and involving ongoing domestic abuse, threats or intimidation, sexual violence or situations in which women have less power or fewer resources than their partners,” according to the World Health Organisation.
Liliana’s Invincible Summer (Bloomsbury, £10.99) by Mexican writer Cristina Rivera Garza, a deserving winner of a recent Pulitzer Prize, explores the killing of the author’s sister on July 16 1990 in Mexico City by an ex-boyfriend.
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