Film
An All-Female Gang Sells Black-Market Oil in Dry Ground Burning
A meticulous blend of fact and fiction, this film surveys the overlooked fringe of Brazilian society under President Bolsonaro.
London
News
Hundreds Storm British Museum to Protest Fossil Fuel Sponsorship
The daylong demonstration culminated in a mass action and occupation of the museum after hours.
News
Plans to Build a Holocaust Memorial in London Halted
Campaigners against the proposal worried that the design would incur on green space and detract from a slavery abolition monument nearby.
News
British Museum Denies Request to 3D Scan Parthenon Marbles
The Institute for Digital Archaeology hoped to scan the marbles and create an exact replica that might help settle the dispute between the London museum and Greece.
Art
A Century of the Artist's Studio Is a Peek Into the Artist's Mind
The studio is a place of self-mirroring, self-haunting, a space where the artist plays out the day-to-day reality of the fantasy of being an artist.
News
London's National Gallery Renames Degas’s "Russian Dancers" as "Ukrainian Dancers"
Calls to rename the mislabeled work have intensified since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Art
Delicately Balancing Psychoanalysis and Art History in a Van Gogh Exhibition
Popular perceptions of van Gogh are often preoccupied with heart-wrenching accounts of mental illness, but Van Gogh: Self Portraits avoids speculative psychoanalytic readings of one tortured face after another.
Art
Tate's Survey of Caribbean-British Art Centers Britain
By the end of Life Between Islands, the island that is centered in this exhibition is Britain, and “the Caribbean” remains a loose, ill-defined, hazy backdrop
News
London’s Goldsmiths College Threatens to Slash Queer and Black History Studies
Students have been involved in a tuition strike in response to the school's “compulsory redundancies” plan.
Art
Why Is a Virtual Veronese Artwork at a Physical Museum?
To play devil’s advocate, you could argue that eventually technology will be so good that everyone will have VR, and there is no need to travel to the National Gallery at all to see art.
News
British Museum Drops Sackler Name — But Not Everywhere
The disgraced family’s name will remain on the museum’s benefactors' board and its Great Court donor list.
Art
A Hogarth Survey Has Good Intentions but Misses the Mark
Why assemble the most significant grouping of Hogarths from far and wide without indicating why calling out the faults in historical artworks is important to our understanding of our world today?