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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Why we've got every right to be annoyed
Protest without the ability to cause safe and temporary disruption is not real protest at all
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
IF PATEL’S Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill banning “annoying demonstrations” had come into force in 1976, I’d surely have gone to jail by now, given the amount of gigs I’ve done on the backs of slow-moving or stationary lorries, hastily erected stages or quite simply in the middle of the road.
This Bill, now law, is an attack on our basic human rights. There won’t be real protest at all but state-sanctioned, sanitised cosmetics.
It is a pre-local election sop to the servile, cap-doffing gerontocracy which is England — not Britain — in 2021. It is “protecting” inert bits of stone and flags while ignoring living, breathing women, ethnic minorities, the poor, the vulnerable and, above all, the young.
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