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The Politics of Genre: Shahzia Sikander

25/01/2022

"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’."...

The Politics of Taste: When Millions Burn

27/02/2019

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. ...

Art and Politics (its all about transformation)

13/03/2018

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

Beppe Grillo is a clear example of the line between Comedy & Politics being crossed. But is that a good thing?

‘Is That Funny?’ Comedy and Politics

08/02/2018

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

Political bullshit just makes you part of the herd.

Bullshit and Post-truth Politics

25/01/2018

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?...

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

15/06/2017

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

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

07/01/2017

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

The Right Business: Politics and the Randian Hero

26/02/2016

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

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

13/02/2016

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

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

06/02/2016

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

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

02/02/2016

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

Heretic! Religion and Politics, Causing Mayhem for 2000 Years

26/12/2015

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

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

28/10/2015

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

Kendal Calling : Festivals, Politics and Culture

01/08/2014

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....

Politics as usual, Has Failed

27/05/2014

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

Idiot Wind: The Eternal Politics of the 1970s

31/12/2011

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....

The Walls of St Pauls by Kailas Elmer 2013

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

10/11/2011

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....

The Politics Of Revenge And Submission

06/05/2011

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...

Politics in Imperial Nigeria

03/04/2011

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...

Uzo Egonu, Stateless People an artist with beret, 1981

Whither Nigerian Modernism?

09/07/2025

Tate Modern to host massive exhibition of Nigerian Modernism...

Lost and Found in Amsterdam

27/06/2025

Why getting lost in Amsterdam Art Week might be the only way to find what matters...

Detail from a drawing of trees. Michael Eden, Warring Entities, 2025

Drawing the Unseen: Landscape as Ideological Frame and Perceptual Rupture

06/06/2025

Artist statement: Michael Eden explores drawing as a transcendental conduit in art practice...

Nando Messias, Shoot the Sissy, 2016. Photo: Holly Revell. Courtesy of the artist

The Incendiary Promise of Performance Art

06/05/2025

The London Open Live release Performance Programme for 2025, Whitechapel Gallery ...

Mike Nelson, MAGAZIN, Büyük Valide Han, 2003. Installation view at Büyük Valide Han, Istanbul Biennial, 2003. Photo: Muammer Yanmaz

Is photography obsolete?

02/05/2025

Mike Nelson's three room installation at the Fruitmarket, Edinburgh asks the question: are images dying? ...

Image shows photograph of Music inside a structure — Action Space Archive

Ken Turner: The Oldest Performance Artist In The World (probably) — Part II

24/02/2025

'...we didn't understand the philosophy. We were making it.' Part two of an interview with groundbreaking and influential UK performance artist Ken Turner....