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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An exercise in covert neocon narcissism
ANGUS REID takes issue with Adam Curtis's documentary series Can’t Get you out of my Head
Can’t Get you out of my Head
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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
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
AMUSING, disturbing and immersive, Adam Curtis’s eight-hour documentary epic Can’t Get you out of my Head, currently on BBC iPlayer, is a tour de force.
A magpie in the archive, stealing what he can to feather his nest, Curtis tops and tails this extravagant survey of the last 100 years with a quotation from US anthropologist David Graeber, who died last September.
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