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Art, Activism & Architecture: Sofia Karim

27/10/2021

British artist Sofia Karim on how she started a global resistance movement with samosa packets...

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Asia-Art-Activism Launch New Collective Programme

03/11/2020

Till We Meet Again IRL encourages viewers to collectively dream about how we all might rise together amidst current global anxieties....

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Frieze Explores the Possibilities of Political Activism in Art-making

10/10/2018

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....

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A picture of a laptop by Vicktor Hanacek

Armchair Activism (Apathy in the UK)

07/03/2014

Social media can activate interpersonal ties but won't necessarily turn ordinary citizens into hyper-activists...

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Activism: Move to stop Murdoch Owning BskyB

02/03/2011

"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...

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Activism: Open Media to Support Protests in the Middle East.

20/02/2011

  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...

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Mitch Griffiths, Flat Earth

Hope and Myth in Mitch Griffiths’ Immortal

28/04/2022

A review of Mitch Griffiths IMMORTAL exhibition at Halcyon Gallery...

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Photo from Mythical Creatures by Liad Hussein Kantorowicz. Photography by Aviv Victor. 17m35s film, 2020

Nothing About Us, Without Us: Active Bodies at the ICA

02/03/2022

A review of Decriminalised Futures at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), an exhibition showing sex work as artwork....

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The Estorick Collection Announces Bice Lazzari Exhibition

20/12/2021

Often described as the 'Agnes Martin of Italy', Bice Lazzari remains largely unknown outside her country of birth. ...

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19.20.21: Kaoli Mashio at CASSIUS&Co

30/11/2021

The Knightsbridge gallery and bookshop presents its third exhibition ...

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Art Objects: Martha Freud

18/11/2021

An interview with visual artist Martha Freud ahead of her exhibition at Nonemore Gallery...

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Jim Naughten, Orangutans, 2021

Dark Ecology and Eremozoic Visions: Jim Naughten

08/11/2021

An interview with artist and hyperreal ecologist Jim Naughten...

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Value in Context: Art in the Public Realm

29/09/2021

Vestalia Chilton discusses the value and opportunities of public art. ...

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The Mask 2009

Soft Power in the Political Art of Annya Sand

20/10/2020

An interview with London based painter Annya Sand on painting and politics. ...

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MSCHF Recreate Medical Bills and Sell to Erase $73,000 Debt

28/09/2020

The Brooklyn-based group sold each work at a price equal to the amount of each individual’s debt, with the profits sent to the bill owners in full....

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Submissions Now Open for 16 Days 16 Films

16/09/2020

Now in its third year, the initiative, which advocates to combat violence against women, will take place from 25 November – 10 December 2020....

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Hauser & Wirth Take on Estate of Gustav Metzger

31/07/2020

The move marks the first time Metzger, who helped lead a mid-20th-century art movement known as auto-destructive art, has ever been represented by a commercial gallery....

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Angela Davis and Erich Honecker

Radical Black Resistance

16/06/2020

In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, a new show explores the impact of Angela Davis' visit to East Germany in 1972. ...

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Ai Weiwei Creates 10,000 Masks in Aid of Coronavirus Charities

29/05/2020

Humanitarian groups will receive income from the artist-activist's artful masks, some of which bear a defiant middle finger....

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Hannah Starkey First Institutional Solo Exhibition

06/12/2019

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....

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Keeping The Faith – The Billy Bragg Election Tour

24/11/2019

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....

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Art on the Streets Exhibition

05/10/2018

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....

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Girl With No Name

29/06/2018

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the crusading socialist who just shocked American politics....

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All the World’s a Stage: Ian McKellen Plays His Part

30/05/2018

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....

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Thomas Hart Benton, City Building, 1930

Why Being an Artist is not a Job

08/05/2018

Working away in the studio is play with consequences not a job, thank goodness!...

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Creating Utopia & Dystopia

20/04/2018

We recreate our myths everywhere, those which are beautiful and horrifying ...

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Max Klinger & The Freudian Unconscious

03/04/2018

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!...

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Exclusive Colleges Make For More Inclusive Colleges. Whut?!

08/12/2017

Student-led protests for inclusive campuses are more likely at selective universities ...

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Sounds Unfair: The Plight of Britain’s Independent Music Venues

21/12/2015

A quiet disaster has been happening in our town and city centres, only now are we doing something about it...

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mincerman by Dan Booth

Entrenched imperial orders do not die pretty deaths

04/06/2015

The angst, humiliations, and sundry degradations of working people that are inherent to capitalism are unbearable for the multitudes...

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