Tag: Politics
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Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art
The 50 artists in this formidable show have all used textiles to tell powerful stories of resistance to social, political and ecological ills
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Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America
This partnership between art institutions of disparate missions and unequal standing and resources has produced a notable exhibition, in which 20 cross-generational artists address the the state of democratic values in the US
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Yoan Capote – interview: ‘When a Cuban looks at the sea, he remembers the isolation and pain of thousands of families’
The artist talks about his new series of large-scale paintings, Requiem, and how his work is influenced by timeless themes such as migration, death and the sea
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Peter Kennard – interview: ‘Montage is about allowing people to think critically’
Ahead of a new exhibition at Richard Saltoun Gallery, the celebrated political artist talks of photomontage, protest, art schools and image-making in an age of mass reproduction
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Matheus Parizi – interview: ‘Artists are compelled more than ever to make work about what is happening in the street. Art has to be political.’
Parizi talks about the current right-wing climate in Brazil, cuts to funding for the arts, and his new short film First Act, which he made as a direct response to the political events in his country
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Visual Wit and Social Critique. Satire from Goya to Grosz
With three centuries’ worth of satire, this exhibition offers an overview of things that have changed and, perhaps more engagingly, things that have not, through an artist’s eye view of society
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Yevgeniy Fiks: ‘Any utopia is queer by nature, because it takes you from the present and directs you to a strange time and place’
Artist and curator Yevgeniy Fiks talks about his work with curator Olga Kopenkina for the exhibition Future Queer Perfect, which looks at the utopian aspirations of Soviet experience and its connection to artistic and cultural concerns
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Bob and Roberta Smith: ‘Put all those rotten politicians under pressure – that’s what we should do’
By bringing politics into art, the artist Patrick Brill, better known as Bob and Roberta Smith, hopes to bring art into politics and to see art education and democracy firmly on the agenda both in London’s forthcoming mayoral elections and…
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A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears
Jules Feiffer: If You Really Loved Me, You’d Find Me: The Strips 1960-2000 Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York 15 June-11 August 2006
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Out of Beirut
Modern Art Oxford 13 May-16 July 2006
