Frieze continues to be a key destination for collecting institutions around the world, enabling the entry of works by today’s most forward-thinking artists. (read more)
Social media can activate interpersonal ties but won’t necessarily turn ordinary citizens into hyper-activists (read more)
"In 24 hours, nearly half our mass media could be owned by Rupert Murdoch." Avaaz.org has posted a campaign to block the UK governments decision which would allow Rupert Murdoch to purchase the broadcasting network (read more)
Avaaz.org is looking to raise money to create an independant online media portal to allow 'blackout' proof coverage of the protests. Trebuchet supports the creation of open media networks, so this seems like we (read more)
As the fourth recipient of the annual £100,000 Freelands Award, the Hepworth Wakefield will present a major survey exhibition of the photographer in 2020. (read more)
This sold-out show was a call to arms that there is another way, and that we can take a great leap forwards to a fairer, more equal society. (read more)
[11.04.19] Ugly Duck works to programme a diverse range of creative projects, exploring fields such as science, activism, information and technology, and social/cultural issues. Anamorphic Waves is an exhibition exploring how digital interfaces and technological (read more)
The posters invite the viewer to consider the role that visual activism can play in our everyday experience, highlighting the power of images to challenge and empower. (read more)
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the crusading socialist who just shocked American politics. (read more)
Frank self-analysis offers some fascinating insight into Ian McKellen’s career trajectory; an essential watch for both fans and those interested in an experienced actor’s perspective. (read more)
Working away in the studio is play with consequences not a job, thank goodness! (read more)
We recreate our myths everywhere, those which are beautiful and horrifying (read more)
Max Klinger is a thought provoking artist who was influential on early modernism his work not only helps to explain complex theories but also helped to form them! (read more)
Student-led protests for inclusive campuses are more likely at selective universities (read more)
A quiet disaster has been happening in our town and city centres, only now are we doing something about it (read more)
The angst, humiliations, and sundry degradations of working people that are inherent to capitalism are unbearable for the multitudes (read more)
While it is tempting to label Barack Obama, as many have, an “empty suit.” Fact is, the term is not only facile but inaccurate. (read more)
You accepted your economic betters’ paltry bribes and transformed mass media consumer distraction into your mode of being (read more)
fter one presents a cogent critique of capitalism, one is likely to hear the following as a reply from the propagandized, good citizens of corporate state-levied economic despotism (as, in fact, I have this very (read more)
‘The work may recall the state of isolation, which is common to all of my performance works’. (read more)
In part 2 of this interview, Trebuchet’s Sarah Corbett speaks to the Craftivist Collective’s Sarah Corbett about political art, Tracey Emin and Occupy (read more)
In part one of this interview, Trebuchet’s Sarah Corbett speaks to the Craftivist Collective’s Sarah Corbett about the growth of craftivism, practical issues and how craftivism can change and influence people. (read more)
When questioned by the youth of future generations about how you responded when the earth was burning, will you reply that you went to the mall staring at a glowing electronic box, engaged in cretinous palaver about the private lives of sub-cretinous celebrities? (read more)
“Seriously, the Wacken show was special,” Jourgensen says. “The crowd was great and the band were so tight and heavy, they blew everyone away.” (read more)
Research shows that “wanting to improve the world starts with teens caring about their friends, Concordia research shows.” (read more)
The conversation, between humankind and catastrophic natural phenomenon, tends to be a bit one-sided. (read more)
To be an activist is to suffer defeat after defeat after defeat. Without spirituality to recharge and revive us the danger is we fall into bitterness or despair or worse, self-righteousness. (read more)
It’s dangerous, people are not who they seem on the internet. Inside those twitter storms (I’ve had a few) there are usually one or two who hang around for a week or so, its easy to pick up fixations on the net. They can be local, they can hang on for several years, having someone fixated on a fantasy idea of you that you cannot challenge is not fun. (read more)
Generation Genocide: Punk doesn’t nurture it preserves! The word ‘Punk’ must retire. Dispossessed from its ancient zeitgeist it bitterly refuses to die, refuses to compromise, and continues to eke out its existence in our parlance (read more)
In the Bevere community, located outside Tucani, Venezuela the push for agricultural reform and ‘endogenous development’ is the government’s reported attempt to reduce the poverty and inequality. (read more)
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