Every single month, the art CANNOT be stopped
"Close Encounters
Isaac Julien interviewed by Tom Denman
I think one of the problems of today is a tendency to crystallise meaning when it comes to images of power, in how they are constructed and interpreted, whereas I am seeking to trouble such images.
Beyond Cancel Culture
Sarah E James asks why the onus of taking a political stand continues to fall on artists rather than on cultural institutions
Hassan Khan is unambivalent when he outlines what he sees as art’s critical role in our current times of genocide: ‘To make the taboo visible in a way that is uncensorable is for me at this moment one of the most important political acts art can do.’
Megan Plunkett
Gabriella Nugent
Megan Plunkett interrogates our relationship, and that of photography, with objects: she works with props, as well as found objects, consumer detritus and film industry replicas, to circumvent established systems of ownership and desire.
So WAD?
The 15th of April was officially, according to UNESCO, World Art Day, though it passed with little fanfare here in the UK – symbolic of a general neglect of the visual arts.
Long before the cost-of-living crisis in the UK morphed into the international permacrisis that we are currently living through, the arts were already in a parlous state."
