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
Why I'm Voting Labour: Tayo Aluko, actor and singer
There’s something about that Mr Corbyn
Tayo Aluko
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
DESPITE all available evidence to demonstrate the stupidity of my position, I find myself strangely attracted to the man. It’s not the trimmed grey beard or the sharp suits — anyone else notice how he no longer wears second-hand clothes? — or the designer-look glasses he has recently taken to wearing. It’s, it’s... I don’t know.
It has been confirmed time and again that he’s a threat to national security, that he’s an anti-Semite, a communist, a terrorist sympathiser, a foreign agent. He has been stabbed in the back and in the front by many in the Parliamentary Labour Party and repeatedly declared by those in the know to be unfit for leadership.
Yet he’s still there, having convincingly won the leadership twice, while the Tories changed leader, twice.
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