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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Something rich and strange
JAN WOOLF calls attention to a unique exhibition of evocative abstract art in a community arts venue
Sea One, Oil on canvas 2023; Derek Ogbourne
[Courtesy of Derek Ogbourne]
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
Derek Ogbourne
Grand Union Community Hub
AS critics rave about Planet Earth 3 on the telly, I want to draw attention to Derek Ogbourne’s otherwordly, organically inspired paintings.
Yes, organic is good for you, working on your insides and outsides simultaneously.
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