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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by Omar Sabbagh
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
A problem like a cheap, black stone
in the treasure box of my country.
The people here make of readiness, brilliance
an idle toy.
How clever it is to bear
so much of an unpilfered mind,
but to thieve one’s life of chance and care
by way of a reigning mould,
a road set to vanquish travel by design.
We could have been the greenest apple
in the eye of a fruitful world, but chose instead
to cross ourselves.
We could have brought sumps, dear plenitudes
to earth, straightened-out the crooked timber of a lie.
Omar Sabbagh is a widely published British-Lebanese poet based in Beirut.
Poetry submissions to thursdaypoems@gmail.com
