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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Being Numerous: Essays on Non-fascist Life by Natasha Lennard
Flawed arguments for living a life free from authoritarian oppression
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
THIS is a somewhat puzzling book, not helped by its title.
What fascism is, and how it develops, is never made clear and references to the work of Michel Foucault and Wilhelm Reich provide little assistance. By its conclusion, I was as unsure of what “living a non-fascist life” means as I was at the start.
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ALAN McGUIRE welcomes a biography of the French semiologist and philosopher
PAUL BUHLE agrees that a grassroots movements for change in needed in the US, independent of electoral politics