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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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
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The best of times
the worst of times,
the boom, the bust,
the ashes to ashes
and the dust to dust,
the punky reggae party
with the faded goth,
from for whom the bell tolls
to the grapes of wrath.
Sometimes it all adds up. Sometimes it doesn't.
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