Opinion
What Public Art Might Look Like After the Pandemic
Our approach as an organization with 25 years of experience in producing digital community arts has been to reverse the power relations.
United Kingdom
Art
Pro-Palestinian Artwork by Forensic Architecture Was Censored by University of Manchester
After learning that its statement had been removed from the exhibition, Forensic Architecture requested that its works be withdrawn from the exhibition.
News
Swirling Images of the Cosmos, as Seen From Earth
See the encapsulating images shortlisted for the 2021 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.
Opinion
Critics of the New Princess Diana Statue Are Missing the Point
The question we should be asking of the sculpture is not whether it is a great work of art but whether it’s effective at defining a legacy.
News
Citing Pro-Israel Ties, 25 Artists Disaffiliate From London Collection
Artists and cultural workers are withdrawing their work from the Zabludowicz Collection "in solidarity with Palestinian liberation."
Art
Over 100 Unpublished Hokusai Drawings Resurface in New Exhibition
Created nearly 200 years ago for the artist’s unpublished The Great Picture Book of Everything, the works will go on view at the British Museum.
Art
Unraveling Rodin’s Artistic Mystique
A corrective to the sculptor’s self-aggrandizing, The Making of Rodin draws attention to the hidden figures who made his work possible.
Art
Jean Dubuffet’s Highs and (Controversial) Lows
Curiously, Dubuffet’s anti-hierarchical approach to art did not translate to similar views on society.
News
Newly Unveiled Princess Diana Sculpture Prompts Criticism
The larger-than-life statue shows the late princess surrounded by three children.
Art
Veronica Ryan’s Botanical Musings on Migration
For the Montserrat-born artist, seeds are both a metaphor for and a physical continuation of the Afro-Caribbean diaspora.
Art
In Intricate Weavings, Igshaan Adams Maps South Africa’s Tangled Histories
Adams’s weavings are the kind that demand to be stood directly in front of, for you to hunker down on your knees, or crane your neck at all angles.
Art
Exploring Fraught Histories at the Liverpool Biennial
Particularly well incorporated into the city’s everyday, the biennial’s latest edition attempts to grapple with Liverpool’s colonial past.