News
Kara Walker Satirizes Britain's Public Sculptures with a Monument to Trans-Atlantic Slavery
Kara Walker upends the Tate Modern with a massive fountain, renewing the debate about the nature of public monuments in the heart of violent empire.
London
Art
Kara Walker’s Monument to Monstrousness
Can the enduring presence of such monuments among us still have the power to reinforce deep-rooted prejudices, by the very fact that they have simply not gone away?
News
Anti-Oil Protesters Will Storm the British Museum with a Trojan Horse
BP or not BP? launched a crowdfunding campaign to build a giant Trojan Horse for its largest protest yet, which will coincide with the museum's Troy: Myth and Reality exhibition.
Art
The Hollow Heart of Antony Gormley’s Spectacle
Is there something self-aggrandizing about Gormley’s career-long obsession with making casts of his own body?
Film
Anime's Hostile Visions of the Future
Anime's Human Machines at the Barbican Centre offers a variety of perspectives on humanity, technology, and whether the soul can exist between machines and humans.
News
Hundreds of Art Workers Join Global Climate Strike in London
On Friday, September 20, around 200 art workers, many of whom have been staunchly urging UK institutions to divest from oil sponsorship, left work and took to the streets to take part in the world’s largest-ever climate protest.
Art
The Tumultuous Times of William Blake
Blake was received by his contemporaries as either extremely odd or completely mad or perhaps both.
Film
The Hidden Labor Beneath the Global Economy
This year's Open City Documentary Festival in London screened numerous films which highlight the humanity and resilience of those on society's margins.
Film
Contemporary Filmmakers Are Using Fiction to Explore Facts
Several films at the Open City Documentary Festival unseat normal notions of "real" and "fake" in nonfiction.
Art
Modern Fables for a Dystopian World
Wong Ping's animated films present human and animal characters as psychologically complex, as well as fallible and unable to fully control their lives and desires.
Art
Using Art to Voice Opposition to the Arms Trade
Dozens of artists are showcasing at Art the Arms fair in London, a protest exhibition that runs concurrent to the notorious Defence and Security Equipment International.
Art
Lee Krasner’s Second Act
Though Krasner often invited art historians to interpret her work biographically, she was too resourceful an artist for those reductive readings to overshadow her art’s complexity.