A century later, is it finally time to bury Lenin’s corpse?
They want to see the mummy of the man who, five years after the October Socialist Revolution of 1917, founded the world’s first communist state, led by workers and peasants. …
Vladimir Lenin
Artistic inspiration versus propaganda: William Kentridge’s film to accompany Shostakovich’s 10th Symphony channels composer’s struggle with Stalinism
Technically speaking, it’s difficult to describe anything in William Kentridge’s Oh, to Believe in Another World, which closed Hong Kong’s New Vision Arts Festival, as “new”. The same techniques employed …