Art & Politics

The filmmaker on his new BBC series, the enigma of AI, and the need to imagine a genuinely new future

From Boudicca to the French revolution’s cockades, brooches have always been used to convey politically-charged messages

In further news: German arts collective to install tank to protest far right; Greek prime minister willing to trade ancient artefacts for Parthenon marbles loan

Peter Meijer called the performers ‘special souls’ who needed to be ‘protected’

How conservation efforts can end up fictionalizing history

The project encourages children on both sides of the wall to play across the divide

The cooperatively run Means TV, behind Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s viral campaign ad, promises to empower the working class

‘I was sad to resign; sad to believe that it was the most useful thing I could do,’ wrote Ahdaf Soueif

Amid a carnival atmosphere, Eliasson elicits an emotional reaction to the urgent issues of the day

The distressing images depict unhappy stick figures in cages

New study finds major commercial galleries represent just 32% women

50 years on from Stonewall, Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera will be memorialized in Greenwich Village

Thousands of tourists were left queuing after the museum was closed on Monday

The artwork, which features 3,500 life jackets, was used to advertise an orange VW Polo

The artist addressed the ‘elephant in the room’ – that London’s Serpentine gallery bears the Sackler name

The porn block, in effect 1 April, is out of touch with the internet and protects neither ‘innocent minds’ nor sex workers

The Guggenheim in New York is the latest major arts institution to refuse Sackler money

Arts institutions are shipping works early to preempt delays caused by exit from European Union

The artist alleges that the Cities of Love franchise cut his section to avoid upsetting the Chinese government ahead of a planned project in Shanghai 

Restitution is critical but we can’t let the process be co-opted by those who seek to evade responsibility for Europe’s pillaging past