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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Tunnel visionary
John Smith’s film installation White Hole glimpses a Europe undivided between east and west, says MIKE QUILLE
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
White Hole at Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
5/5
IF YOU want an antidote to ongoing Black Friday-style consumerist madness in the run up to the "festive" season, then get along to the gallery space in the newly refurbished Tyneside Cinema.
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