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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By Alastair Mcleish
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
Eyes like a whippet’s balls
HR man does his roll call,
Since Friday he’s been gunning
To hit this morning running.
A long, morose weekend
He’ll never recommend,
Confesses all day Sunday
To wishing it was Monday.
His live team-building shows
Mock Sisyphus’s throes,
How he took his labour ill
With his boulder on that hill.
For by HR’s broad shoulder,
He would have loved that boulder,
Can’t slavery be a ball?
All for one, and one for all?
Of course, we’d never praise
Chillaxed, enlightened ways,
Or make a futile fuss
At how HR belittles us,
(We’re losers, punks, dead-ends
Sluggards, nine-to-five’s friends)
To us, a pinch of salt
No point in finding fault,
Like Death, we can’t o’erthrow
A team-building road show.
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