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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The real story of the Wapping strike
JOHN GREEN recommends an outstanding film on the battle between printworkers and the Murdoch media empire
PROTECTING CAPITAL NOT JOBS: (Left) Lobbying TUC general meeting on January 29 1986, (right) Morning Star photographer Ernie Greenwood trampled by police horse
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(Left) Stefano Cagnoni, (right) Pic: Adrian Franklin
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
Wapping: The Workers’ Story
directed by Chris Reeves
(Platform Films)
Wapping - the workers' story from Christopher Reeves on Vimeo.
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