The Street Art Debate: Banksy Controversy
I recently saw a mural being painted on the corner of a street near mine. It represents two…
Category: Art and Politics
Exhibition Review: Hassan Sharif at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
The blue-chip contemporary art institution in the heart of Berlin’s Mitte district currently houses a retrospective of Emirati…
Friederike von Stackelberg Photography – Escaping Stripes
It is funny how one comes into contact with art. One child can walk full of boredom, through…
Korzhev: between the rise and fall of the USSR
We are ending this week which approaches russophile art on different scales with Gelij Korzhev, an artist renowned…
Christo: environmental art and political revolution
“Beauty, science and art will always triumph”. These words contained in a letter from 1958 well synthesise the…
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Snapshots of life: the eye of Battaglia in the Sicily of the Seventies
Once in high school, the Literature teacher took us to an important lecture. When we sat down, a…
Hong Kong through the brushes of Firenze Lai
Our final post on #artandpolitics focuses on the work of Firenze Lai, a contemporary artist, illustrator and editorial…
The rise of politicizing pavillions in the 58th Venice Biennale
As in #artandpolitics, the 58th Art Biennale in Venice (2019) “May you live in interesting times” emerged with politicizing…
Goya and the depiction of drama
One of the first Spanish master painters that put emphasis not only on documenting a tragic moment in…