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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Sleepless Nights
by John Pinkerton
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
To lead
And not be led
By chancers
To heed
And not dread
The answers
To feed
And not be fed
By lies
To have led
The TUC rally
‘Enough is enough’
Would have been
A surprise
To have appeared at
The Durham Miners’ Gala
And not to have feared
The multitude’s angry tropes
To have fed those thousands
And their hopes of
The socialist gleam
Would have been
My moment damascene
A nightmare
Not a dream
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