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Published in: Home: ReviewFake royal magic on show in palace photographsStaged informality meets imperial majesty in a Kensington Palace exhibition – but it’s a great British royal lie
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Published in: Home: FeatureContemporary art is popular – but it’s still about money and powerThe gravitational force of big money bends the art around it into new patterns – including those of pop culture
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Published in: Home: FeatureCan art about the Ukraine war be anything more than disaster porn?For centuries artists have tried to show the truth about war’s horrors – but even great work has had dubious success
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Published in: Home: ReviewSonia Boyce feeling her way to freedom as the UK’s artist in VeniceThe first Black woman to represent the UK at the world’s leading art festival calls us to imagine what freedom looks like
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Published in: Migrant Futures: FeatureGetting a foothold in global opera: the cost of COVIDAspiring singers are finding it hard to begin careers in the world of international opera because of difficulties...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: InterviewCan art change the world? An interview with Hanan ToukanIn her new book, Toukan investigates the relationship between Western funding and contemporary art in Beirut, Amman...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Oblivion adds tragedy to death'A wine jug, big-bellied and narrow-necked... is the oldest representation of such a tragedy that I have seen'
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Published in: ourEconomyThe missing third client: how artists are exploring radical economiesHow would you value care work, cheese, and a piece of forest, if not mediated by a market?
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Published in: TransformationThe arts belong to all of us – so let’s make that a realityAccess to culture is a fundamental part of a fulfilling life, but it’s tough to reach excluded communities.
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Published in: Frontline InsightsMeet the artist changing gut reactions to the Philippines ‘war on drugs’Thousands have been killed and human rights defenders vilified in President Duterte’s campaign. In response, artist...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaPolitical protest not for sale!Why the Homeland Hack is not a commodity.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaAppropriation and de-politicization: the uncomfortable discussion on Umm Kulthum in BerlinAn open letter about intellectual and artistic spaces being used to quash a side of the debate, to delegitimize...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaConquering spaces of complicit amnesia in Jerusalem: portrait of two independent art institutionsA walk between two independent art institutions in the east and west of Jerusalem shows us how far society is still...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSyrian cultural policies in Turkey: Islamists and secularists beyond the wall – Part IIChanging mocking views of Syrian culture demands endless efforts. عربي
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Published in: TransformationCan theatre change your mind?Most people don’t think of media as propaganda, but confirmation bias is rife. What can be done?
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWhere are you, Arab intellectuals?A plea for the poetic inspiration and vision needed to counter despair, complacency, repression and extremism.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe shifting balance of identity politics after the Syrian uprisingAn account of the drastic identity and narrative shifts during the Syrian uprising. The author focuses on the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKIs art really to blame for gentrification?Art is being used as a medium for gentrification, as the middle class displaces that of the working class in poorer...
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Published in: HomeHuman Rights Watch Film Festival London 2012 (21st - 30th March)Arab Awakening's Mazen Zoabi peeks into the realities of life as a Middle Eastern woman. A review of two fascinating...
