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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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
They dug their tunnels straight down
through the floor of the cancer ward.
That’s why we were forced to enter.
That’s why we had to administer
our precise and effective anaesthetic.
We found the WMDs beside the MRIs-
the ones Saddam kept hiding for so long.
That’s why we called upon our chemotherapy guns
to neutralise all traces of malignancy.
And in that smoky room, beneath the dialysis machines,
were cowering the last three escapees out of Alcatraz.
We hooked them up. We drained every toxin.
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