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The Politics of Genre: Shahzia Sikander

"Art history is deeply Eurocentric and tends to place art that doesn’t sit comfortably within its canon as the ‘other’ and never as ‘avant-garde’."...

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The Politics of Taste: When Millions Burn

If the art market represents the surface of the ocean that is contemporary capital, voices of resistance are light and shadow thrown down upon it, changing its complexion. ...

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Art and Politics (its all about transformation)

The transformation of a world veiw is possible but does art approach the challenge?...

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‘Is That Funny?’ Comedy and Politics

Across the globe, the line between Comedy and Politics is growing ever more blurred. This event discusses the implications, and the punchlines, that result....

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Bullshit and Post-truth Politics

The spread of management-speak, or just plain bullshit, into politics has grown ever more common of late. It's easy to laugh off such vacuous jargon, but is there a real cost to talking rubbish?...

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We Don’t Need New Politics, We Need New Gods

What deities should be placed before the God of Money?...

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Politics? Environment? In the end, all is transitory.

The human heart, an inveterate time-traveler, knows its way through the honey-hived portals of time. ...

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The Right Business: Politics and the Randian Hero

Wealth does not denote moral worth, so why does it make politicians popular? Essay...

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One of Us? Identity Politics and How Donald Trump Rides Them

Still trying to understand the appeal of Donald Trump? The slick shortcut of identity politics, explained....

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Trumped, But Not Out. Identity Politics in America, and the new Other

An essay on how demographics have changed America, and how this affects the politics of identity....

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The Tr(i)ump(h) of Identity Politics

Something about Donald Trump appeals to a large number of American voters. What is it? Douglas Bulloch offers some answers....

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Heretic! Religion and Politics, Causing Mayhem for 2000 Years

Scientists find: Religion and politics led to social tension and conflict, then and now ...

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Tonight! Punk, Poetry, Politics: Mike Doughty, Hoxton Underbelly

Mike Doughty hits the stage at the Underbelly, Hoxton, tonight....

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Kendal Calling : Festivals, Politics and Culture

Kendal Calling’s strength comes from its ability to tap into and play host to what has emerged since the digital revolution gave bands and artists the ability to promote themselves....

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Politics as usual, Has Failed

In our time, politics as usual has failed to address the most pressing issues of the age...

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Idiot Wind: The Eternal Politics of the 1970s

Unpopular wars drag on, gas prices erratically rise and inexplicably fall, as clouds of cynicism, dark as Richard Nixon’s perpetual five o’clock shadow, brood over the length of the U.S....

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Sex, Anarchism, Politics and Pirates: London’s Theatres Collaborate

This week saw the launch of a new collaborative project between 12 of London’s top theatre venues, who are changing the way Londoners find theatre....

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The Politics Of Revenge And Submission

Transmuting Lead into Gold: America's Politics Of Revenge And Submission. When the individual feels, the community reels Osama Bin Laden is dead. And so is the U.S. republic. We had to destroy...

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Politics in Imperial Nigeria

Last night I was invited to a dinner hosted in Debare’s honour, to celebrate the opening of the university.  The meal was arranged by his friends and associates, all of roughly the same...

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Art Profile: Dr Apinan Poshyananda

An interview with the artistic director of Bangkok Art Biennale Dr Apinan Poshyananda...

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Art Against Oblivion

The weight of her country’s history and the ongoing phenomenon of enforced disappearances...

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Structures and Disorder

An interview with artist Jon Kipps...

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Art Through Time: Alon Zakiam Gallery

A review of Art Through Time exhibition at Alon Zakaim, 2024...

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The Manufacture of the Modern World

The constructs of Jon Kipps...

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Power Up! Radical Community in the Sustainable Service of Art. 

Sustainability as an institutional force. A review of the Burn Out Symposium, July 2023, Luckenwalde, Germany. ...

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I Don’t Care for Images: Charlie Schaffer

Deconstructing truth and superseding aesthetic in Charlie Schaffer’s artist talk....

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Septuplet: How Art Can Nurture Radical Urban Immersion

Embedded within our individual experience of life is the notion of consumption and presence, by which the parameters of human experience can be constructed (as much as it could be disrupted)....

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Do We Need a New Definition of Violence? Brad Evans on Art and Technology Pt 2

Part two of Trebuchet's interview with Philosopher Brad Evans on violence, history and contemporary life. ...

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Do We Need a New Definition of Violence? Brad Evans on Art and Technology

An interview with Philosopher Brad Evans on violence, history and contemporary life. ...

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Tai Shani on Power, Story and Reality

Practice, story and reality; an in depth discussion with Turner Prize winning artist Tai Shani...

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