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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Morning Star poetry co-editor ALISTAIR FINDLAY surveys a new collection published in celebration of John MacLean
JOHN MACLEAN: Portrayed a stained-glass window, unveiled in Pollockshaws library, Glasgow 2023; in a mugshot before being imprisoned for “sedition” in Peterhead prison from 9 May - 3 December 1918; Glasgow 2023; In a commemorative stamp issued in the USSR on the centenary of his birth, 1979
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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
THE slogan of the International Workers applies not just to May Day but to all workers and progressive left movements in struggle all year round regarding peace, gender equality, anti-racism, anti-sectarianism, the environment, human rights and the abolition of poverty.
No better way to start the year than with some Thursday poems emblematic of that slogan which feature poems on Palestine and Bloody Sunday, and today reviewing a new centenary collection of poems dedicated to John MacLean, Now’s The Day, Now’s The Hour, a theme also featured in the Morning Star on November 30 2023.
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