Art & Politics

Why does the ‘men’s rights’ guru to the alt-right surround himself with Soviet-era memorabilia, which he doesn’t even class as art?

A 1926 boozy sketch for a commission intended for the League of Nations building in Geneva was declined for being ‘too bacchanalian’

Italian politicians want to censor the artist’s poster for a sailing event, which reads ‘We’re all in the same boat’

Indecency surrounds us, we must not look away

How will the Black Panther writer, known for his landmark critical assessments of race, take on the quintessential symbol of Americana?

The online petition organized by Green Party MPs warns that far-right politics across the continent has dangerous implications for the arts

The punk activist-artists have been charged with disruption after they charged the field during the France vs Croatia match

‘You can’t reason with him but you can ridicule him’ – lightweight as it is, Trump Baby is a win for art as a legitimate form of protest

Is the lack of social mobility in the arts due to a self-congratulatory conviction that the sector represents the solution rather than the problem?

At Vancouver Art Gallery, the curator brings to light the insidious normalization - and romanticization - of North American nuclear development 

The Twin Peaks director says earlier claim that Trump ‘could go down as one of the greatest presidents’ is being taken out of context

Artist Andrea Fraser’s 2016 in Museums, Money and Politics lifts the lid on US museum board members and political funding

Decoding the First Lady’s off-brand fashion choice

A new series of screenings in New York tells a bracing account of filmmaking under the Russian leader

The collaborative practice, led by Helen Walker and Harun Morrison, uses community networks and humour to tackle serious social issues

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

Corbyn says that the sculptures ‘belong to Greece’, and supports return of all colonial loot in British museums

At BALTIC, Gateshead, the Turner prize-winner uses East African fabrics and the words of renowned black writers to question ideas of belonging

Thoughts on an unpredictable series of local disasters

Kimberly Bradley speaks to ‘the German’ curator on the reasons for his early exit from the Austrian institution