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
Haldane: The Forgotten Statesman who Shaped Modern Britain
Engaging biography of an establishment technocrat
CATALYST: Richard Haldane’s caricatured as ‘Hegelian politician’ by Leslie ‘Spy’ Ward in Vanity Fair, 1896
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
MEMO to my reviewing self: don’t always judge a book by its fly-leaf blurb — as a result of doing just that, I very nearly threw this brick on RB Haldane into the bin.
Its author, John Campbell, is the co-founder of an international private equity and infrastructure house and this would appear to be his first, rather patrician, foray into biography.
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