Art and Politics

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Artists, curators and the founder of the nomadic biennial come together to discuss the political and cultural hurdles involved in decentralizing the Catalan capital

The museum received tens of thousands of pounds to host the Saudi embassy just days after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi 

An exhibition at Pinchuk Art Centre, Kyiv, timed to coincide with the Yalta European Strategy conference, reminds of the corruptibility of culture

BY Mitch Speed |

How is contemporary Aboriginal art challenging an exclusive historical canon?

BY Paola Balla |

Bolsonaro’s repeated insults towards women, people of colour and the LGBT community, should have been enough to derail his campaign – it wasn’t

BY Fernanda Brenner |

Many assume that the greatest challenges facing Cuban artists come from within Cuba – often they don't

Works by 13 Aboriginal artists prompt reflection on the 1828 atrocity, one which represents the countless other colonial battles fought in Australia

BY Wes Hill |

Criticism of the show at the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest comes alongside a nationalist reshaping of the country’s cultural policy

It’s not clear who destroyed the project – part of the Liverpool Biennial – which names those who have died trying to seek refuge in Europe

The disconnect between public museum programming and private hire couldn’t be starker – it’s time for the arts to rethink who it accepts money from

BY Mel Evans |

Trump’s State Department is more than 3 months late in announcing its national pavilion – testament to the chaos engulfing the administration

BY Cody Delistraty |

From Stormzy at the Brit Awards to a Steve McQueen film to Forensic Architecture's media archive, what Grenfell has shown us about ourselves

BY Ismail Einashe |

The artist presents 71 reconstructions of archeological objects in her exhibition at ARTER, Istanbul

BY Berin Golonu |

By putting Pussy Riot on trial, the Russian authorities inadvertantly made them a household name

BY Valentin Diaconov |

‘Or Whistle Spontaneously’ is an invitation to act, even if you are doomed to lose

BY Roma Clemie |

In the inaugural exhibition at Peep Hole, the Milanese not-for-profit, Ahmet Öğüt uses the subversive powers of irony

BY Barbara Casavecchia |

At Govett-Brewster, New Plymouth, an exhibition direct-sells the gallery’s interests in social and political issues of migrant peoples in South Korea

BY Louise Menzies |

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