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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Beyond Caring
Damning indictment of unemployment in the Thatcher era
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
UNEMPLOYMENT, as anyone who has experienced it for even a short time knows, is soul-destroying and humiliating.
Every unemployed person is made to feel that it’s their fault and that society has no obligation towards them. It’s nothing to do with a heartless and oppressive system.
That’s why Salford-born photographer Paul Graham’s book Beyond Caring, first self-published in 1985, is as explosive as ever. The system hasn’t changed, only the faces of the unemployed.
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