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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CHRIS SEARLE revels in the one-off collaboration between an American polymath and a British Muslim, and detects the presence of their revolutionary forebear
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BRENT CUTLER welcomes a thoughtful analysis of the Erdogan regime, viewed through the evolving history of a neighbourhood in Istanbul
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JOE SOLO is an award-winning musician, writer, poet, activist, broadcaster and washing machine engineer from Scarborough.
His musical odyssey began in 1987 and, on top of releasing 21 albums since 2004, he helped create WE SHALL OVERCOME in 2015, a campaign pushing for a positive response from the music community to the poverty and hardship inflicted on ordinary people by the government’s austerity program.
Since October 2015 the movement has organised more than 1,100 gigs up and down Britain and beyond, raising an estimated £750,000 in cash, food, clothing and bedding for those hardest hit, and on the back of his efforts the Morning Star named Solo “Human Being of the Year.”
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