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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Resolutions for 2018: Tories out, Roundhead renaissancecore in
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
TWO new year resolutions for me and the most important one is obvious.
I shall continue to play whatever small part I can in getting this no mandate, no compassion, no brain and no guts Tory government what it deserves — a no-confidence vote as soon as possible.
The country is crying out for another election and a massive Labour vote to end the destruction of the NHS and the decimation of our public services, all done in the interests of a few shareholders, parasites who should have no role in the public sector at all.
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