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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Black history banished
MARIA DUARTE recommends a fascinating documentary about a revolutionary black music festival that was deliberately ignored by the media
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
Summer of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) 12A
Directed by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson
IN THE summer of 1969, just 100 miles south of Woodstock, another epic and historic music event took place which celebrated black history, culture and fashion, but which no-one has ever heard of because it was never publicised or shown on television — deliberately.
Over six weeks The Harlem Cultural Festival was filmed in Mount Morris Park (now Marcus Garvey Park), but the footage has never been seen — until now, musician-turned-director Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s powerful debut documentary finally righting the wrongful omission.
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