Art & Politics

With her retrospective at Manchester Art Gallery, the artist and curator talks censorship, stereotypes and dismantling power in the age of #metoo

Post-Grenfell, mid-Windrush and pre-Brexit, a day-long forum in London invited artists and organizations to re-imagine the communities we live in

Ahead of the museum’s ‘The Future Starts Here’ exhibition, eco-activists protested the sponsor’s production of diesel cars

From hobnobbing with Oprah to championing new art centres, millennial crown prince Mohammed bin Salman is following a well-trodden path

A juror for the award last year, Dan Fox on why the Turner Prize is and always will be political (whatever that means)

Brooklyn Museum’s Catherine Morris discusses two galleries’ approaches to social issues at Frieze New York

This edition of AV Festival, held in Newcastle and Gateshead, asks: can socialist concerns and agendas be rehabilitated for today’s anxious times?

Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland

While we might not see open censorship be prepared for the vilification of provocative aesthetics

White supremacists’ ‘yellow fever’, Degas’s achievement and creating that ‘Media Men’ list: what to read this weekend

Where the fight against reactionary conservative activism in Brazil stands ahead of the 2018 presidential elections

What chicken nuggets tell us about capitalism, breaking Steve Bannon's spell, and the power of left-wing melancholia: what to read this weekend

From victims of Hurricane Harvey to the music of Roger Waters, 2017 has been full of renewed debate around support for boycotts

Her work animates the consequences of our colonial history and the construction of identity politics: in a divided Britain, will we listen?

Margaret Lee thanks those who have helped her gain a deeper understanding of how to be more empathetic in difficult times

Édouard Glissant’s play Monsieur Toussaint is translated into Creole at this year’s Ghetto Biennale, unpicking Haiti's national heroes

Johan Grimonprez’s recent films explore the mechanisms of the arms trade

Recent instances of censorship show an emboldened far right attacking the arts, queer identity and more: artists, curators and writers respond

What impact has the repressive offensive against demands for independence had on the Catalan cultural scene?

Mining the history of political insurrection of its host city, a biennial focusing on links between East and West