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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When the Pilrig Church Clock Strikes 13
by Mike Cowley
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
As Pete Shelley sang, Boredom
is counter-revolutionary.
Run, Leithers! The old world is behind you!
Expel the policeman from your head.
All power to the Imagination!
The landlords are homeless.
The bankers’ laments are derivative
of songs whose time has run out.
The corporate lawyers plead guilty
on behalf of their clients.
We are realists. We only demand the Impossible!
We will organise sit-ins in your souls, occupations
in the margins of your ledgers.
When the last neoliberal is strangled with the last copy of the Daily Mail
When the Granton campus dreamers twin with Gaza’s colonised streets
When the last establishment entryist is exposed
When the spectacle’s final reel unspools in nude ignominy
the noonday underground will emerge from its slumbers.
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