Art
Carnival and Colonialism Converge in Hew Locke's The Procession
Locke's stunning, sensuous spectacle of pattern and color, just like the grand tradition of Caribbean carnivals, hints at sinister elements that undergird the whole endeavor.
London
Art
A Joyous Carnival to Celebrate David Graeber's Lasting Legacy
Artists gathered for the launch of the new David Graeber Institute, which will oversee the scholar’s archive of unpublished texts and pursue projects around climate change, debt, labor, and war.
Art
The V&A Wanted to Subvert Toxic Masculinity but Ended Up Reinforcing It
The exhibition Fashioning Masculinities lets men have their cake and eat it too.
News
Climate Protester Who Souped Van Gogh Artwork Speaks Out
In a viral clip, 21-year-old activist Phoebe Plummer defended the protest and slammed the British government's inaction on climate change.
Opinion
The Van Gogh Is Fine; You Won't Be
The real target of Just Stop Oil's tomato soup action wasn’t Van Gogh's painting. It was our complacency.
News
Climate Activists Go Warhol on Van Gogh, Splashing “Sunflowers” With Tomato Soup
The work, which is behind glass at London’s National Gallery, was part of Just Stop Oil’s latest protest action.
News
Activists Crash British Museum Opening to Protest Egypt's Political Prisoners
The anti-fuel group Culture Unstained criticized the museum’s connections to British Petroleum and its silence on the imprisonment of Egyptian political critic Alaa Abd El-Fattah.
Opinion
King Charles Wants to Make Britain "Beautiful" Again
The British monarch and Donald Trump have both tried to impose neoclassical architecture on their countries — and one of them actually succeeded.
Art
The Politics of the Air We Breathe
Inspired by Charles Babbage’s idea of air as “atmospheric memory,” In the Air considers air as a common space that belongs to and affects the whole of humanity.
News
London's V&A Museum Finally Drops the Sackler Name
But a museum in Harvard is still named after a member of the disgraced family, notorious for its role in the opioid crisis.
Art
Is It Possible to Enjoy Cornelia Parker’s Works Without Her Words?
Parker's stories bring so many of her works alive, give them meaning, and make us warm to her and to them. Is that a problem?
Art
How Disney Animation Provides a Gateway to Understanding Rococo
So closely do Disney's animators assimilate the sensibility of French design that on occasion their source material appears almost more Disney than Disney itself.