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Opinion

Opinion / What Are NFTs and Why Are They Changing the Art World?

Peter Brock explores what blockchain technology could mean for power relations within the art world

BY Peter Brock | 09 Apr 21

Opinion | Peter Brock

Opinion

Opinion / Frieze Editors Discuss What the Art World Has Learned in 2020

COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter were two of the major events that signalled the changes that may – and in many cases must – come next year

BY Andrew Durbin, Amy Sherlock, Evan Moffitt, Pablo Larios AND Terence Trouillot | 14 Dec 20

Opinion

Opinion / Curator Bonaventure Ndikung on Why Germany’s Struggle against Imperialism Is Far from Over

From the reconstructed City Palace to the Reichsflagge, the symbols and ideologies of colonialism are as alive as ever

BY Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung | 20 Oct 20

Opinion

Opinion / Mike Kelley and the Ghost of le Comte de Lautréamont

On what would have been Kelley’s 66th Birthday, Gabriella Pounds explores the impact of the antic French poem ‘Les Chants de Maldoror’ on the artist and his predecessors, from Hans Bellmer to John Balance

BY Gabriella Pounds | 27 Oct 20

Interviews

Interviews / Adora Mba on How her Gallery Will Foster a New Generation of African Artists

The former journalist and founder of The Afropolitan Collector opens her first gallery, ADA \ Contemporary, in Accra, Ghana

BY Adora Mba AND Terence Trouillot | 22 Oct 20

Opinion

Opinion / Denise Ferreira da Silva on Refusal and Fugitivity

Black Brazilian contemporary artists confront the racial violence of the state

BY Denise Ferreira da Silva | 07 Dec 20

Opinion

Opinion / The Battle for the BBC

Why the Conservatives are wrong to dismiss the British public's intelligence and imagination

BY Juliet Jacques | 14 Oct 20

Funding the Museum

Opinion

Opinion / Museums Are Never Neutral

Neutrality is a veil for wielding power: this is the status quo that requires resistance

BY Laura Raicovich | 27 Mar 20

Activism and Art

EU Reviews , Reviews

Reviews / Mohamed Bourouissa Creates Images Against Racial Stereotypes

At Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt, the artist blends reality and fiction to address issues of precarity

BY Radia Soukni | 03 Feb 21

One Takes

One Takes / Art, Activism and Aerial Assault

In a pastoral Welsh landscape where poets once gathered, the Royal Air Force now trains pilots in warfare

BY David Birkin | 03 Mar 20

Reviews

Reviews / R.I.P. Germain Positions Mourning as an Act of Activism

At Cubitt, London, the artist reenacts Caribbean rituals and pastimes to preserve the legacy of his loved ones

BY Kareem Reid | 23 Nov 20

Interviews

Interviews / Artists and Art Workers Challenge Poland’s Abortion Ban

Curator Natalia Sielewicz speaks with Pablo Larios about the fight for women’s rights in Poland

BY Pablo Larios AND Natalia Sielewicz | 06 Nov 20