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
‘It's impossible to understand the world around us without understanding how we got here’
Ahead of his tour next month, radical US songwriter DAVID ROVICS talks music and politics with Reuben Bard-Rosenberg
David Rovics
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
You've called your new show the Musical History tour and it will focus on stories from the past. How can music shape our historical understanding and why is it important?
The powers-that-be in the US would have us believe that history is shaped mainly by great leaders or technological innovation.
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