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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When intellect met arrogance
GORDON PARSONS builds a picture of the paradoxical life of Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell (centre), alongside his wife Edith leading an anti-nuclear march in London, February 18 1961
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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
Bertrand Russell: Public Intellectual
Edited by Madigan & Peter Stone
Spokesman Books £19.99
THE title of this collection of 19 essays on the life of arguably the 20th century’s most famous philosopher raises the question, what is a public intellectual?
Michael Ruse in his brief opening memoire of Bertrand Russell defines the soubriquet as “the professional in the public market place.”
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