Ahead of today’s vote, angry Brexiteers have called for the gallery to lose its charitable status for exhibiting Jonas Lund’s project about “online manipulation tactics” that can influence voting.
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Seeing Signs of Brexit at Frieze London
Walking through the tents of Frieze Art Fair last weekend, visual evidence of Brexit’s impact was all around.
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Reader’s Diary: ‘The Brexit Crisis’
The presses roll fast when there are no presses to roll.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: a drunken Brexit supporter attacked an artwork featuring a hijab, a specialist disappeared with the possible da Vinci drawing he was asked to authenticate, and thieves who stole stones from a historic battlefield came down with the Gettysburg curse.
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The Visual Propaganda of the Brexit Leave Campaign
MANCHESTER, UK — In the week following the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union (the “Brexit”) on June 23, there was a 500% rise in hate crimes across the country.
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“The Views of the Majority Don’t Align with My Own”: Artists React to Brexit Vote
LONDON — After two days of torrential rain, I woke up at 6am this morning to bright sunshine, surely a sign that all would be well.
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UK Party References Nazi Propaganda in Pro-Brexit Billboard
In a remarkable demonstration of how to inflame public sentiment and paint one’s own organization as a vulgar and racist political group, the UK Independence Party (UKIP) has unveiled a billboard in support of the campaign to have Britain exit the European Union that visually references Nazi propaganda.
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Brexit Could Close the Door to Opportunities for Artists
LONDON — Much of the Brexit debate has focused on questions of economy, immigration, and security, which will be most impacted by the decision. But little has been said of the arts — one of the most multicultural industries in Britain today.
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Wolfgang Tillmans Focuses on Borders and Brexit in London
LONDON — Like many other Europeans living in the UK, I am not eligible to vote in Thursday’s referendum that will decide whether Britain should leave or remain in the European Union.