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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Tvins
Affecting story of twin-brother Jewish refugees who escaped Nazi Germany and settled in Bradford
FRATERNAL BONDS: Fritz and Hans with their older brorher Arthur
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
DIRECTED by Danny Hardaker, this well-made 10-minute documentary is very much a taster for what could be a much longer film.
Tvins tells the story of the two German-Jewish brothers who arrived in Bradford in 1938 as Fritz and Hans, returned from Canada as Fred and John and then settled into Bradford life, married and raised children.
At the time of their flight to safety, Europe was in chaos and in Germany the Nazis were in power. The brothers, from a privileged background, were sent by their father to Bradford to escape the fascist threat in their home country and their story is told through the eyes of their two children, Nick and Paula, and family photo albums.
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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.