Gentrification

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As protests roil the opening of New York's Museum of Chinese Art (MOCA), we revisit the role of artist-led activism in Chinatown

BY Audrea Lim | 19 JUL 21

A new commission at Cell Project Space confronts questions about our complicity in the gentrification of our cities 

BY Jamila Prowse | 08 DEC 20

2018 gave glimmers of hope for those hoping to defy tech giants – but now is the time to remain vigilant

BY Hili Perlson | 21 DEC 18

‘This retrospective portrays an inveterate outsider, a champion of the different and disempowered, as a fixture of a canon he reviled’

BY Evan Moffitt | 28 AUG 18

The dissident artist has posted a series of videos on Instagram documenting diggers demolishing his studio in the Songzhuang district

04 AUG 18

A number of galleries have recently been marked for demolition, and a number more fear for their long-term survival

BY Tom Mouna | 24 JUL 18

In further news: New York art project fights mass incarceration with house music; Marcia Hafif passes away at 89

24 APR 18

Why can’t New York get over its ‘bad old days’?

BY Dan Fox | 19 DEC 17

From skyscraper bridges to giant bio-domes enclosing Manhattan, an exhibition at the Queens Museum takes us on a tour of the city that could have been

07 NOV 17

From growing protests over the gentrification of Boyle Heights to Schimmel leaving Hauser & Wirth, the latest from a mobilizing LA art scene

BY Jonathan Griffin | 13 MAR 17

Marina Abramović finds herself embroiled in the Clinton email saga; chief curator of Seoul's Ilmin Museum accused of sexual harassment

08 NOV 16

From Claudia Rankine on whiteness to the history of the medicine cabinet: what to read this weekend

BY Paul Clinton | 21 OCT 16

An East London arts community rallies against gentrification; Executive Director of New York's El Museo del Barrio to leave 

16 AUG 16

LA residents call for galleries to leave their neighbourhood and legendary Factory photographer Billy Name passes away

19 JUL 16

How London's gentrification impacts on artists

BY Jonathan P. Watts | 23 OCT 15

What Rob Pruitt’s The Andy Monument says about a changing New York 

BY Dan Fox | 11 APR 11