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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Feel-good medicine makes me sick
ANDRE VLTCHEK takes issue with the growing tide of Western-produced films which view the impoverished countries of the world through rose-tinted spectacles
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
IF YOU watch blockbuster films set in the Global South, chances are you’ll start to believe that the world is not really such a desperate place.
You might even be convinced that under the present imperialist, turbo-capitalist global arrangement, things can always get better.
If you live in a gutter somewhere in the Indian subcontinent or Africa, you could simply try hard, “believe in yourself and love yourself” or “listen to your instincts” and everything may eventually fall into place.
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