Art & Politics

In New York, a so-called ‘exhibition’ at a ‘museum’ featuring 30 ‘artists’? Dan Fox uncovers the truth behind this dangerously timely show

Black Lives Matter Arts+Culture has been launched in a bid to promote African American artists ‘changing the world’

In further news: a long-lost tapestry owned by Henry VIII re-emerges; Kerry James Marshall’s Chicago Public Library mural withdrawn from auction

The spectral presence of prisoners in everyday commodities 

Beyond the ‘forcefield of righteousness’ that occludes some political work, ‘Artes Mundi 8’ manages a complicated and rewarding show

At an extraordinary press conference yesterday, some key clues were given away as to what to expect from the artist at Venice

With the anniversary of last year’s Catalonian bid for independence, a lens on the region’s cultural radicalism

Complicating the ‘disaster narratives’ associated with the Niger Delta by attending to the local ecology, and those responsible for defiling it

At an event hosted by the ICA in London, the whistleblower and activist talked about the dangers of technology and how the US is now ‘like a prison’

At Tate Modern, the artist has installed heat-sensitive paint, tear-inducing gas and renamed the Tate extension in honour of a local activist

Leftist histories, state violence and the cracking open of time: can a ‘mere’ competition, and publicity exercise, also speak truth to power?

On 28 October 2015, a US military surveillance blimp rampaged across rural Pennsylvania after breaking its tether above Maryland 

‘This retrospective portrays an inveterate outsider, a champion of the different and disempowered, as a fixture of a canon he reviled’

The Director of London’s ICA, Stefan Kalmár, on why publicly funded institutions must respond to the emergencies defining our world today

Banu Cennetoğlu’s refusal to remake The List, serves as a reminder that bigotry and violence is never far from the surface

Does the French president’s project for a more ‘enlightened’ French youth reveal a hidden agenda?

Gallery owner says he doesn’t want to support the painter’s political views and that ‘this is essentially what you do if you give him a platform’

In times of political turmoil, art is a necessary rebuke to escapism

Even as right-wing politics increasingly tries to enforce them, remembering that nature and art know no borders

With authors, curators and musicians recently denied entry, the UK is fast painting itself as a cultural pariah