ART

Surrealism as a revolutionary movement

The Blue Rider – A Radical Art Movement

Peter Kennard – The Art of Protest

Now You See Us – Women Artists in Britain 1520‑1920

Yoko Ono – Music of the Mind

Philip Guston (1913‑1980) bearing witness to brutality and injustice

Divas – What are they good for?

Women in Revolt – art and activism in the UK 1970 to 1990

Marina Abramovic – Diva of performance art

A letter from Palestine

Ai Wei Wei – art against tyranny

The Rossettis – a radical refugee family

Ai Weiwei – Making Sense

Milk

Women’s abstract art ‘re‑discovered’

Alice Neel, painter and anarcho humanist, 1900‑1984

An evening with Pavel Otdelnov

Fly in League with the Night

The Forgotten Women of Surrealism: A Magical, Short Animated Film

Women Making Modernism

Crosscurrents and the Force of Nature – Winslow Homer

Feminine Power

A Caribbean Carnival of protest

Marxist, Nationalist, Feminist: The Art and Politics of Frida Kahlo

Kacper Grass // 13.07.2022

Migration, homesickness and the Arab Street

Audiences as performers – Lubaina Himid

Surrealism beyond borders

Philip Kane // 26.02.2022

Questioning the Whiteness of Western Art

Desire International – Russian LGBTQ Art at Pushkin House

Response to Neil Faulkner

In praise of Manchester Art Gallery – helping people look at art differently

Shakespeare, Trotsky, and the Nature of Art

Little Amal Meets Alice

Anish Kapoor: Painting

Windrush artwork in Hackney is a worthy legacy

Surrealism Beyond Borders

Philip Kane // 22.10.2021

The History of Palestine told in Embroidery

‘Without Agenda’ – an exploration of both gender and art with speaker Sacha Coward (video)

Anti*Capitalist Resistance // 28.09.2021

After Covid: Rebuilding the Arts & Culture Sector

09.09.2021

My Cultural Highlights

Picture of the week: Forgotten Woman Painter

Picture of the Week: Reflections on Monet’s Water Lilies

Picture of the Week 9 Yayoi Kusama Aggregation: One Thousand Boats Show (1963)

Dave Kellaway // 23.05.2021

Palestine: A bloody war of occupation!

Anti*Capitalist Resistance // 14.05.2021

Picture of the Week 7 Hayward Gallery Art and Power exhibition

Phil Hearse // 28.03.2021

Picture of the Week 6 Judy Chicago’s ‘The Dinner Party’

Terry Conway // 21.03.2021

Picture of the Week 4 Photograph of Che Guevara by Alberto Korda

Phil Hearse // 07.03.2021

Picture of the Week 3 Self‑Portrait on the Borderline between Mexico and the United States by Frida Kahlo

Dave Kellaway // 04.03.2021

Picture of the week 2 Il Quarto Stato (The Fourth Estate) by Pellizza da Volpedo, 1898‑01.

Dave Kellaway // 22.02.2021

Picture of the Week 1: Churchill by Graham Sutherland, 1954

Dave Kellaway // 15.02.2021

Fighting disaster capitalism with ecosocialism

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