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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Picture This: Lovecraft
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
HOWARD PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT had a wonderful gift for accessing that dark recess of the reader’s mind where atavistic foreboding lurks, nourishing it with scenarios of dread at the malignant and petrifying unknown, both in the physical world around us and our innermost presentiments.
Of the quartet of stories in the graphic volume Lovecraft, adapted and illustrated by INJ Culbard, The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath and The Case of Charles Dexter Ward are regarded as among his best.
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