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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Reviews of collections by Sylvia Pankhurst, Chawki Abdelamir and Martin Hayes
RESOLUTE: Sylvia Pankhurst recovering from her hunger strike in prison
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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
EXACTLY a hundred years ago, Sylvia Pankhurst was sentenced to six months in prison for publishing articles in the Workers’ Dreadnought urging London dockers not to load ships with arms to be used against the infant Soviet Union.
At her trial she declared: “Capitalism is a wrong system of society and it has got to be smashed — I would give my life to smash it.”
In Holloway prison she began writing a series of poems about the working-class women she met there. Because the authorities refused to allow her pen and paper, she had to use chalk to write what she called her “faithful lines upon inconsistent slate.”
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