Activism

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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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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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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Nevada Museum of Art Acquires Judy Chicago’s Full Fireworks Archive

20/05/2020

The archive contains thousands of photographs, digital images and other materials related to the artist-activist's site-specific works involving coloured smoke and fireworks from 1967 to the present....

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Climate Activists Bring Trojan Horse to British Museum in BP Protest

07/02/2020

Activists from the theatrical protest group BP or not BP? dressed as warriors to protest against corporate sponsorship deal with oil firm....

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Photojournalist Raises Fears About Freedom of Expression in Bangladesh

08/03/2019

Bangladeshi photographer and activist Shahidul Alam has described his ongoing fight to clear his name after he was detained last year by police in Dhaka....

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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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Chelsea Manning In First UK Appearance

14/08/2018

Chelsea Manning to be honoured at this year’s annual Friends of the Institute of Contemporary Arts dinner, marking her first public appearance in the uk....

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The Capitalist Mindwash and Oprah For President

01/02/2018

Enough of the rags to riches celebrity graft narrative - Oprah for President? Please, no....

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Donald Trump

Let Loose the Orange Beast and Good Riddance to Capitalism

04/01/2018

The age of Reagan reaches its apogee in Donald Trump. Now, bring on the fall....

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Self-Medication or Self-Anesthesia: It’s No Wonder We Tune Out

15/12/2017

Beneficiaries of the system promote their lies; the sane seek solace where they can get it...

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Loitered Lens: Billy Bragg and Sean McGowan

13/12/2017

Activist singer-songwriters go head-to-head at Islington's Assembly Hall...

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protest

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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Nick, Find a Cave and Hide Your Face

28/11/2017

What could Po$$ibly make a $eemingly $en$itive arti$t $uch a$ Nick Cave Play I$rael?...

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UK Subs

Loitered Lens: UK Subs and The Angry Agenda

24/11/2017

Grassroots garage punk brings a dose of righteous anger to The Flag...

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Tarantist

Death (Sentence) Metal: Not a Crime [Tarantist]

15/11/2017

Iranian Metal goes one step further - TarantisT now sing in Farsi...

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anti trump protests

Darkness at the Edge of Town

13/11/2017

Mass shootings are a reflection of a culture that used guns to create itself...

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Capitalism. Either it Goes, or We Do

28/09/2017

The city's pantheon of possibility has been scoured away. Whither now?...

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Kong by Dan Booth

Hurricanes are Real, Even if You Deny Climate Change

21/09/2017

Post-Irma, the desperate pseudoscience of deniers is a cacophony of crazy ...

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Mincer by Dan Booth

Opportunity Can’t Be Looted

14/09/2017

Nobody loves a looter, but industrial-scale corruption is just fine...

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Culling Yet More ‘Savages’: North Korea in Context

08/09/2017

If you wish to inflict genocide on a people, it's OK as long as you term them 'savages'...

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Chris T-T by Carl Byron Batson

I haven’t jumped on the Corbyn express: Chris T-T: Interview (Part Two)

24/08/2017

'If you sing about anything other than universal themes, you put people off'...

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Chris T-T by Carl Byron Batson

‘I hope I can turn it down.’ Chris T-T Contemplates a Quieter Life (Interview)

17/08/2017

Like holding back the tide, folk singer and reluctant activist Chris T-T struggles to adapt to a life without opinions...

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Grenfell

Requiem4Grenfell – Images and Verse

15/08/2017

Scenes of community, hope, defiance and care from the wreckage of Grenfell...

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garden shed, downsized living

Tune in, Turn On, Don’t die with your novel still in you.

08/08/2017

One man's wisdom is another man's trite platitude, but who wants to spend their life guarding dust?...

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Rencontres d'Arles

Sunflowers and Daguerreotypes: Rencontres d’Arles

17/07/2017

At the opening week of the Rencontres d’Arles international photography festival ...

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Windmill, fantasy, back to nature

The Better Part of Valour. On Leaving the USA (or Anywhere)

29/06/2017

Sometimes the best thing to do is up sticks and go...

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An Attempt at a Productive Conversation with a Conservative: A Fantasy Saga

07/06/2017

How do you chat politics with a Tory (without frothing at the mouth)? Invent one....

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