Protest

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

What the Pride flag says about the gentrification of queer politics 

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 

Solidarity isn't for everyone

How should the artistic community respond when an art space, explicitly or implicitly, associates itself with right-wing sentiment?

From the Women's Strike to a march that cancels itself out: what to read this weekend

As tension mounts in the run-up to Trump's inauguration, Jörg Heiser considers how artists can galvanize political protest

An activist as well as an artist, Navjot Altaf talks about why political struggle is a process, not an event

Jeu de Paume, Paris, France

Two years on, Hong Kong’s mass pro-democracy demonstrations continue to reverberate

Protestors temporarily close the British Museum and William Kentridge weighs in on the migrant crisis

A troupe of holographic protesters descends on Seoul's Gwanghwamun Square

The provocative works of the Japanese collective Chim↑Pom

Public monuments, Islamic State and contesting the story of the past by Marina Warner

One woman’s protest in Damascus

Anonymity and iconography in contemporary protest culture

Art’s conflicted relationship with the Arab Spring

A year of unrest in the UK