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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The latest intergalactic extravaganza is top-drawer, says ALAN FRANK
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
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IT'S been 40 years since legendary intergalactic hero Luke Skywalker made his debut in the first Star Wars film in 1977.
He’s back, still played splendidly by Mark Hamill, and now a sullen, bearded recluse living alone on a lonely rocky island — “the most unfindable place in the galaxy” – until, that is, Rey (Daisy Ridley) arrives to nag him into inducting her into the ways of the Jedi.
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