MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
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Abject displays
FIONA O'CONNOR salutes a valuable document of the art work of marginalised women in pre-gentrified New York
Helene Cixous teaching at Maison Heine, Paris; (inset) Ana Mendieta in Havana in 1981.
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PAUL DONOVAN recommends the fine performances in this account of the pre-war meeting between the US president and the British king
TECLYN AROD relishes an intimate celebration of jazz improvisation that mixes local and national musicians
The missing sister, the vengeful WAG, cruise ship claustrophobia, and reanimated Avengers
Three great releases of lost concerts by Duke Ellington Orchestra, John Taylor & Stan Sulzman, and Joe Henderson
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
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
by Lauren Elkin, Chatto & Windus , £20
DISTANCED from the market’s central nervous system, the avant-gardes of art and literature play together.
New ways of seeing, desiring and being are imagined. Questions about selfhood, in particular women’s selfhood, emerge while mainstream discourses are directed elsewhere.
A lack of curiosity from the market — because unsellable — helps create conditions in which artists and writers kick back against their confinements: social repression, economic unviability, the taboo.
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CHRISTOPHE IMMER of the Morning Star’s German sister paper Junge Welt reports on a Berlin conference on the politics of art and the legacy of Marxist critic Hans Hess
JULIA TOPPIN recommends Patti Smith’s eloquent memoir that wrestles with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime
WILL PODMORE welcomes the case put by a feminist, disentangling the abusive rhetoric of the trans rights debate
The creative imagination is a weapon against barbarism, writes KENNY COYLE, who is a keynote speaker at the Manifesto Press conference, Art in the Age of Degenerative Capitalism, tomorrow at the Marx Memorial Library & Workers School in London