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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....

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....

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...

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...

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...

Soft Power in the Political Art of Annya Sand

20/10/2020

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

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....

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....

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....

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. ...

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....

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....

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....

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....

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Girl With No Name

29/06/2018

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

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....

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!...

Creating Utopia & Dystopia

20/04/2018

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

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!...

Exclusive Colleges Make For More Inclusive Colleges. Whut?!

08/12/2017

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

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...

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...

Obama Fills His Suit Only Too Well

22/05/2015

While it is tempting to label Barack Obama, as many have, an "empty suit." Fact is, the term is not only facile but inaccurate....

An extortion and shakedown racket. Which you elected.

09/05/2015

You accepted your economic betters' paltry bribes and transformed mass media consumer distraction into your mode of being...

A spurious god created by a corrupt elite – Capitalism

30/03/2015

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...

Diamanda Galás [Interview]

23/09/2014

'The work may recall the state of isolation, which is common to all of my performance works'. ...

Sarah Corbett: Interview (Part 2)

13/07/2013

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...

Sarah Corbett: Interview (Part 1)

03/07/2013

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...

Fortune’s Fools

15/06/2013

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...