Art & Politics

Rebecca Solnit and the Not Surprised letter

Following the Not Surprised letter it’s time to uncouple power from abuse in the art world

 John Akomfrah's epic Purple highlights new ways of visualizing our current state of ecological emergency

From innovations of the Greater London Council in the 1980s to the joy of ‘Acid Corbynism’: bright old futures at The World Transformed festival

On Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the US from UNESCO

Alice Rawsthorn on the Italian design duo’s response to ecological and political concerns

Should Trump have won an Emmy?

Public debate around Confederate insignia has little to do with historical fact, and everything to do with collective memory

The removal of the Confederate monuments in Baltimore shows decisiveness after years of inaction – already they stand as sites of counter-memory

The dystopian promise of the fidget spinner, 'family values' and neoliberalism, and visions of art after social collapse: what to read this weekend

Successfully layering a broader socio-historical narrative onto a period of radical non-conformity, this is an important show now

Who is Françoise Nyssen?

Fact checking Trump and New York gallery roster demographics: what to read this weekend

With the UK General Election next week, the country’s political parties unveil their respective cultural manifestos

Theaster Gates & The Black Monks of Mississippi’s latest project for IHME Festival, Helsinki

A new album by theatre group Object Collection warns against political nostalgia 

Can we compare our current political moment to the tumultuous 1930s?

A survey of more than 50 respondents from over 30 countries

Writers and curators Osei Bonsu, Okwui Enwezor, L.A. Kauffman, Rob Sharp, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and Zheng Bo respond 

The importance of art in war zones