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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Bringing fascism to book
Zines and comics are a powerful tool in the struggle against the extreme right
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
MY DAD reading The Beano to me was how I learnt to read and waiting for the comic to fall through the letterbox was exciting.
Later I was reading 2000AD and then Viz and in my teens buying zines at gigs and bookshops such as the much missed Compendium in Camden.
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PAUL BUHLE agrees that a grassroots movements for change in needed in the US, independent of electoral politics
RON JACOBS welcomes a survey of US punk in the era of Reagan, and sees the necessity for some of the same today