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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Nest 5, 2019 and Flight II - both bronze
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
EIGHTY years ago, fleeing impending nazi occupation, 10-year-old Charlotte Mayer arrived in Britain from Prague.
Her life had been turned upside down, so perhaps it is not coincidental that through her abstract work Mayer seeks, and finds, serenity in an exhilarating equilibrium of forms, where the mathematics of the spiral are the enduring vocabulary.
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