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
VIDEO games add more to the British economy than film, TV, music, publishing, design, fashion and architecture combined.
In 2019, some 18,279 game developers contributed a staggering £2.2 billion to the country’s GDP — an increase from £1.8bn the year before.
The growth is looking exponential, and it shows no signs of abating. More and more workers are flocking to development studios, PC gaming is up 46 per cent, and mobile gaming, 17 per cent.
SETH SANDRONSKY recommends a production that looks back at the political Tinseltown in the mid-1970s when US cinema ‘didn’t pander to trends’
SCOTT ALSWORTH searches for something – anything – worth recommending from the year’s releases
Artists should not be consigned to a life of precarious working – they deserve dignity and proper workers’ rights, argues ZITA HOLBOURNE
PAUL W FLEMING is unequivocal that Labour’s unpreparedness and resulting ambiguity on copyright in the creative industries has to be reined in with policies that will reverse the growing abuse by Big Tech AI


