Art and Activism

The city’s cultural scene has long branded itself as radical but, for too long, politics has been confined to exhibition walls

'Queering Photography’ at C/O Berlin and ‘Queering the Crip, Cripping the Queer’ at Schwules Museum explore representations of identity, gender, disability and sexuality

Activists Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland – who recently threw a can of tomato soup at a Vincent Van Gogh painting in the National Gallery, London – speak about their fight for the future

The Austrian artist Wolfgang Zinggl looks back on his social practice collective’s project for the 1999 Venice Biennale

Avram Finkelstein looks back on Gran Fury’s contribution to the 1990 Venice Biennale, The Pope and the Penis, and considers how the immediacy of social media might have impacted the AIDS activist collective

Fernanda Brenner looks at three activists groups challenging Bolsonaro’s anti-Indigenous government

The Filipino artist-activist collective shares a chart outlining their organizing strategies

Charges of ‘attempted theft of a cultural asset’ against Congolese activist Mwazulu Diyabanza reveal the abyss of Europe’s self-referential legality

Activism in the age of the ‘Superbug’

Osei Bonsu interviews the artist about the evolution of her thinking

When confronted with a deeply damaging past, it becomes necessary to take action to return us to the present

Why ACT UP activists spray-painting over artist David McDiarmid’s ‘Rainbow Aphorisms’ posters scored an own goal

At Tate Modern, the artist has installed heat-sensitive paint, tear-inducing gas and renamed the Tate extension in honour of a local activist

The artist and activist, who spent two years in jail for performing a ‘punk prayer’, was stopped from travelling to perform at the Edinburgh Fringe

Poland’s feminist ‘Bison Ladies’ storm the Japanese artist’s Warsaw exhibition in solidarity with longtime model Kaori’s allegations of bullying

Robin Campillo’s portrait of ACT UP Paris puts militancy before mourning

Artists Beatriz González and Amalia Pica discuss painting, curating, activism and identity