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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Cuba’s finest female film-maker
YAHILY HERNANDEZ PORTO interviews film historian Garcia Yero and prize-winning author Luis Alvarez Alvarez about the extraordinary achievement of Sara Gomez, the rediscovered star of revolutionary Cuban cinema
REVOLUTIONARY: (L to R) De Cierta Manera (One Way or Another) and Sara Gomez
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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
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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
SARA GOMEZ, a native of Guanabaco, died suddenly from an asthma attack on June 2 1974 but she had already made an extraordinary contribution to the seething Cuban art scene of the first decades of the Revolution.
“She was,” says Olga Garcia Yero, “one of the most dazzling figures in Cuban culture: the first fiction and documentary filmmaker who, when she died suddenly at only 32 years of age, was already recognised as one of Cuba’s most outstanding female creators.”
Who was she?
“Sara Gomez had an exceptional culture,” says Yero, “which stemmed from her own life and the complexity of the ’50s and ’60s she lived through.
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