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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Projecting integrity in the lives of working-class communities
STEVE JOHNSON recommends an audio book that movingly explores feelings of loss, love and grief based on experiences of growing up in a low-income family in Bolton
Oliver James Lomax
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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
Oliver James Lomax and Northangerland:
Working-Class Love Poem
Shadrack and Duxbury Records £25.00
OLIVER James Lomax is a poet born in Bolton in 1983 who has previously had two collections of poetry published and has written for film and television. His work has been performed by Maxine Peake and during lockdown he worked with BBC Newsround to film writing poetry tips for children.
He is also a trustee of the Working-class Movement Library in Salford with whom he works to deliver poetry workshops in schools and working-class areas in the north-west.
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