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“What do you think an artist is? He’s a political being, constantly alive to heartrending, fiery, or happy events, to which he responds in every way. No, painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war, for attack and defense against the enemy.”

Pablo Picasso

Visual Arts

Women’s Art

16 May 2017 / 463

PL Henderson introduces the #WOMENSART project, which demonstrates how women have continued to create art, often as radicals, rebels and pioneers, despite the social, cultural and economic... Continue reading

PL Henderson

Visual Arts

A weapon in the class struggle: American artists and the Communist Party

20 April 2017 / 371

Jane Kallir focuses on the relationship of 1930s American artists to the Communist Party. In the 1930s, the Great Depression’s far-reaching economic impact lent credence to the Marxist... Continue reading

Jane Kallir

Visual Arts

Great art, shame about the curating

16 March 2017 / 342

Christine Lindey reviews the current Royal Academy exhibition, and recommends the art – but not the didactic, vindictive and reactionary curation. In January 1918 the Russian Soviet... Continue reading

Christine Lindey

Visual Arts

Art is a weapon in the battle of ideas

7 March 2017 / 352

Stephanie McMillan presents an overview and polemic about political art, the relationship of culture and politics, and the need for critical and revolutionary art as part of... Continue reading

Stephanie McMillan

Visual Arts

October 1917: The Spark For Great Art

22 February 2017 / 365

Christine Lindey explains how the 1917 Russian Revolution inspired the transformation of the visual arts into instruments of popular liberation. “In the land of the Soviets every... Continue reading

Christine Lindey

Visual Arts

All Power to the Ideals!

21 February 2017 / 318

What kind of cultural celebration, Mark Perryman asks, do the art and the politics of the Russian Revolution deserve? A century ago, on 23rd February 1917, Russian... Continue reading

Mark Perryman

Visual Arts

The world was theirs to win: revolutionary Russian art at the Royal Academy

19 February 2017 / 370

Phil Brett enjoys the art at the RA exhibition, but not the simplistic and misleading commentary. Remember the fuss over the art of Hans Holbein the Younger... Continue reading

Phil Brett

Visual Arts

Art of Solidarity

29 January 2017 / 291

Len Phelan reviews the Art of Solidarity. It’s hard to think of a more appropriate venue for Art of Solidarity, a marvellous exhibition of Cuban posters supporting... Continue reading

Len Phelan

Visual Arts

Profit and Loss: a drawing by Owen McGuigan

28 January 2017 / 342

David Betteridge introduces a drawing from Owen McGuigan which ‘takes a line for a walk’; and a song on the same theme of shipbuilding on Clydeside. Watching... Continue reading

David Betteridge

Visual Arts

Unsettling art for unsettling times

10 January 2017 / 322

Sanjiv Sachdev reviews Exhibit A, a witty and politically subversive exhibition of mask images of celebrities by Hugh Tisdale and Dan Murrell. ‘Fame, puts you where things... Continue reading

Sanjiv Sachdev

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“What do you think an artist is? He’s a political being, constantly alive to heartrending, fiery, or happy events, to which he responds in every way. No, painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war, for attack and defense against the enemy.”

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