Sixty years ago, in 1963, an Aeroflot flight from Moscow was on route to Havana and had to stop at Shannon airport due to fog. Shannon, then... Continue reading
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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
Jim Aitken 
Jenny Farrell writes about Artemisia Gentileschi (8 July 1593-1656) One of the great weaknesses of bourgeois establishment art analysis is that the artist and their work are... Continue reading
Jenny Farrell 
Nick Moss reviews this exhibition, at Tate Britain till 20 August. Image above: Isaac Julien, What Freedom is to me – Homage, 2022, © Isaac Julien, courtesy the artist... Continue reading
Nick Moss 
How can memorials powerfully remind us of past horrors? How can they keep the atrocities of the past alive and relevant? Micha Ullmann’s Berlin memorial (above, by... Continue reading
Jenny Farrell 
Nick Moss reviews Hot Off the Griddle, an exhibition of Alice Neel’s art at the Barbican Art Gallery, till 21st May 2023. Image above: Support the Union,... Continue reading
Nick Moss 
Nick Ross reviews this exhibition, on till 7 May at the Hayward Gallery, London. Image above: The Deliverance and The Patience, interior, 2001. Photo by Liam Harrison. Courtesy... Continue reading
Nick Moss 
It’s hardly the ruined, devastated postwar rubble that was the backdrop of the most famous film shot in Vienna, The Third Man (see image above), but in... Continue reading
Dennis Broe 
Mark Perryman shows how Steve Bell’s visual dissent targets the entire establishment. All cartoons are courtesy of the man himself Politics can be an ugly business. There... Continue reading
Mark Perryman 
Image above: “Currencies” by 16:9clue is licensed under CC BY 2.0. We live in a disposable age. If any further proof of this was needed, we need... Continue reading
Rebecca Lowe 
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