What Does Fascist Art Look Like? Reading Walter Benjamin
Jem Gilbert, Nadia Idle and Keir Milburn
Join our close reading of a foundational text of 20th century media theory.
Tag: art
Some Tate Workers’ Salaries Are Less Than Their Directors’ Bonuses
Juliet Jacques
'Nobody can live on the wages Tate pays.'
The Britain You Know Was Created by European Immigrants
Juliet Jacques
An island of strangers.
The Fourth Plinth Is About to Become a Trans Monument
Juliet Jacques
Or rather, an anti-monument.
Microdose: Notes on Camp
Has camp changed culture forever? The gang revisit Susan Sontag’s 1964 essay for an aesthetic Microdose.
Post-Soviet Countries Don’t Know What to Do With Their Monuments
Juliet Jacques
Should Lenin be thrown into a river, too?
Why Posh People Have Bad Taste
Taste may be subjective, but there’s no accounting for it. Critic Nathalie Olah on normcore, hoodies and the Kardashian mansion.
Years Later, Wildfires Blaze on in Survivors’ Minds
Charlie Hertzog Young
Post-fire PTSD levels can resemble war veterans’.
The Art of the Psyop
The truth is out there – but increasingly hard to confirm, as artist Trevor Paglen explains.
NFTs Are Just the Latest Example of Rich People Loving Ugly Shit
Rachel Connolly
Fabergé eggs, bright yellow cars, monogrammed airplanes, the list goes on.
What Can Art Galleries Teach Us About Class Oppression?
The Tate’s collection is a lesson in the making of class, explains Nathalie Olah.
The North Has Always Been at the Cutting Edge of Culture
Kojo Koram
The reality is miles away from the myth.
I Am Not My Work
Why are we told we should love our work? Sarah Jaffe joins James Butler to explain why work will never, and can never, love us back.
‘It’s All Performative, They Don’t Care’: Why Tate Workers Are Going on Strike
Sophie K Rosa
How We Might Live: Architecture and Culture
James Butler is joined by Owen Hatherley, culture editor of Tribune Magazine to talk architecture – socialist and otherwise – and the politics of culture.
#NopeToArms
What do you do when your protest art becomes the backdrop to an arms industry party? These artists withdrew their work and set up their own exhibition to hold the Design Museum to account.
G4S is Using Art by Detainees and Prisoners to Boost Its Public Image
Joe Lo
Shadow Channels~
On #NovaraFM Ash Sarkar is joined by Juha van’t Zelfde, Jay Owens and Liv Wynter to discuss art, digital platforms, and potentials for a new counter-culture.