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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Vida
Hard-hitting series exposes the gentrification process ravaging US cities
SISTER ACT: Michel Prada and Melissa Barrera in Vida
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
REPORTS of a new kind of “white flight” to the suburbs, as in the 1960s, are currently all over the news in the US.
But this time it is also a flight from Covid-19 in beleaguered cities to the supposed safety of rural areas and the suburbs.
This flight is fuelling the decades-long process of gentrification and it’s the focus of a Mexican neighbourhood in the series Vida on Amazon Prime.
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