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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Oliver Yu Chan's open-air art, Royal Free Hospital, London
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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
IN LONDON, there’s a popular short cut that snakes down from Rosslyn Hill past St Stephen’s Church to reach the Royal Free Hospital (RFH) in Hampstead, where construction work is currently under way.
Hoardings with a difference have been erected all along the path and towards the bottom of it To The Point have created a 30-metre-long outdoor gallery with impressive large scale reproductions of paintings by local artist Oliver Yu Chan.
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