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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Hans Hess: Picture these arguments
Nick Wright reflects on the life and work of the influential Marxist art historian and theorist HANS HESS, who died 40 years ago today
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
Hans Hess was one of that brilliant generation of anti-fascist refugees who so enriched Britain’s cultural life.
He gave students at the first communist school of art, organised in 1968 at the Marx Memorial Library, an object lesson in dialectical thinking.
I was among that generation of embattled students deeply involved in controversies about the structure and content of art and design education, and he commanded us to understand our practice as artists and designers and that the behaviour of the individuals within the structures in which we existed — and the way these institutions were constructed and operated — were deeply ideological phenomena.
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JAN WOOLF ponders the works and contested reputation of the West German sculptor and provocateur, who believed that everybody is potentially an artist
The creative imagination is a weapon against barbarism, writes KENNY COYLE, who is a keynote speaker at the Manifesto Press conference, Art in the Age of Degenerative Capitalism, tomorrow at the Marx Memorial Library & Workers School in London
Paul MacGee of Manifesto Press invites you to a special launch on Saturday August 2.