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Power to the people in the city of angels
GLYN ROBBINS recommends a book on a decade in which radical movements in Los Angeles brought protest to the fore and changed the political landscape forever
IN THE VANGUARD: Los Angeles teachers mark their strike victory last year
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
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
Set the Night on Fire: LA in the Sixties
Mike Davis and Jon Wiener
(Verso, £12.50)
LOS ANGELES may be where American myths are made, in the form of Hollywood films, but in this book Mike Davis and Jon Wiener show that it’s also a city of rebellion, where US capitalism has been consistently challenged by grassroots campaigns.
The city was at the vanguard of enduring social movements, demanding not just an end to racism, but violent policing, war, homophobia, sexism, environmental destruction, restrictions of public space and discriminatory housing and education.
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