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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There is no alternative
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
Every time someone says there is no alternative
Tell them the forests are burning
The skies are filled with blood chocking smog
Every time someone tells you there is no alternative
Tell them the oceans are vomiting plastic
The oceans are swallowing us whole
Every time someone dares
To look you in the eye
And proclaim that what we have right now
Is the best possible arrangement of things
Tell them
That in the name of economies, of money, of greed
We let Death with a crown claim lives
And slaughter free
Until hundreds of thousands have died
Antoniy Georgiev teaches at an English Academy in China. In his spare time he writes poems, essays and fiction. 21st-century Poetry is edited by Andy Croft, email info@smokestack-books.co.uk
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