Interviewed by Omar Kholeif
Sarah James
Mark Wilsher
Profile by Nick Thurston
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Akram Zaatari interviewed by Omar Kholeif
The explosion here in Beirut has been far more life-changing than Covid-19. Many people believe that they have a much more serious sickness to deal with – the country itself.
Sarah James asks what happens when anti-anti-Semitism meets the ‘alt-right’
Israel and Judaism are casually and uncritically conflated – a conflation that was once seen as anti-Semitic in itself.
Mark Wilsher revisits the art historical legacy of presence under today’s pandemic, asking what are we missing
Postmodern criticism of the past 40 years tends to valourise interpretation, semiosis and perhaps especially imagery itself. But physical presence is still crucial, and its glaring lack under the current circumstances made me start to wonder why. What exactly is it that we are missing out on?
Nick Thurston reports on the development of a meta-syllabus that enables DIY movements to create bodies of knowledge free from institutional control
In the framework of Pirate Care Syllabus, ‘piracy’ describes a militant mode of caring, one that works illegally or in the grey areas outside the law to organise cultures of care against social injustices.
Moving the Black Lives Matter campaign beyond the politics pages, black athletes and actors are now making a stand in a way not seen for generations.
John Boyega, to his eternal credit, simply walked away. ‘I don’t have time for nonsense,’ he said. ‘We press on and strong.’
Artists from the ‘British Art Show 9’ collectively challenge changes, including redundancies, at the Southbank Centre
According to senior management only 10% of the Southbank Centre’s full capacity across its venues will be used for the arts and the other 90% will be reserved for rental!
The culture secretary tells museums that they will put their future funding at risk unless they ‘take as commercially-minded an approach as possible’; Tate comes under pressure over mass redundancies; Tate blocks projects involving a MeToo whistleblower Jade Montserrat, describing her as a ‘hostile artist’; new research suggests smaller arts venues are most at risk; campaigns are launched the promote culture recoveries based on inclusive principles; the government’s don’t-call-it-Brexit Festival ramps up; plus the latest on galleries, people, prizes and more.
Artangel, London
Adam Heardman
Cubitt, London
Hettie Judah
Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
Tom Emery
KBH.G, Basel
Emmanuel Balogun
The Drawing Room, London
Colin Glen
Crawford Art Gallery, Cork
Chris Hayes
Hamburger Banhof, Berlin
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
Martin Herbert
Conal McStravick
We first see Joan Jett Blakk outside the Democratic National Convention, from which she has just been barred from entering; fired up by the AIDS crisis, racist and structural inequality and rampant homophobia, Ms Blakk serves decolonial punk glamour, all while decrying trenchant political conformity, US imperialism and coloniality, and, most notably, the emergence of a police state – in ways that speak to both past and present.
Ellen Mara De Wachter
Granny recounts how her father brought her family over from India to join him in the UK, then held onto their passports once they arrived and made them pay rent on a property he owned in Glasgow.
Jamie Sutcliffe
Published as the inaugural title of Book Works’ ‘Interstices’ series, Bridget Penney’s Licorice is a darkly curious novelistic confrontation with a substratum of horror cinema commonly known by its ambiguous prefix, ‘folk’.
Deborah Schultz
The volume is informed by Piotr Piotrowski’s concept of horizontal art history, which fundamentally contests entrenched hierarchical structures in favour of transnationality.
Maria Walsh
The festival was clearly informed by an intersectional feminist ethos that ranged and resonated across very different kinds of filmmaking practices.
Lin Er-Ying
Matt Wolf’s retelling of the story of Biosphere 2 – an immense ecological undertaking during the years 1991 to 1993 that once sent the world into frenzied scepticism – sets out to excavate the unmuddied hopes of its creators from the morass of media ridicule and corporate disputes.
Zane Onckule
‘We welcome the conversation with our ghosts, agreeing to be haunted.’ The city of Riga itself becomes the background from which these ghosts appear.
Hana Noorali
Tabita Rezaire maps this technological superhighway over former slave-trade shipping routes, connecting the unequal power dynamics of today with older dynamics, ultimately revealing how dataflows and information networks are neither free nor untethered from existing forms of dominance and oppression.
Henry Lydiate
Banksy’s guarding of his personal identity suffered a set-back on 14 September 2020 when the EU Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) cancelled his 2014 registration as an EU trade mark of the renowned stencil image of Flower Thrower, 2005/06. EUIPO’s judicial reasoning merits closer examination.