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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What happened to Victor Jara is a warning we can't ignore now
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
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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
THERE was a small news story earlier this month that nine soldiers had been found guilty of the murder of Victor Jara, the theatre director, poet, singer-songwriter and political activist.
Victor Jara (Pic: Nicomedes Santa Cruz)
Not many people noticed the story on my social meeja — only Catalina, whose family are from Chile, and Gordon — a principled socialist, who’s long found the biography Unfinished Song: The Life of Victor Jara by his wife Joan an inspiration — discussed it.
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