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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Welcome to Dystopia: 45 Visions of What Lies Ahead
Unsettling visions of what might come following the US presidential election
NARRATING A NIGHTMARE: Janis Ian
[Lloyd Baggs]
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
IN WELCOME to Dystopia, edited by Gordon Van Gelder, a plague of what-if scenarios is released from the tortured imaginations of lefty sci-fi writers sharing one unified vision: What if Trump doesn’t leave in November?
Hell breaks loose.
The tales represent a parallax view of the same event, from the perspectives of men, women and multicultures.
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SCOTT ALSWORTH searches for something – anything – worth recommending from the year’s releases
Although this production was in rehearsal before the playwright’s death, it allows us to pay homage to his life, suggests MARY CONWAY
KEN COCKBURN relishes the memoir of a translator, but wonders whether the autobiography underlying the impulse would make a better book
CARL DEATH introduces a new book which explores how African science fiction is addressing climate change