Feature: The Fourth Plinth Is About to Become a Trans Monument
Juliet Jacques
Mexican artist Teresa Margolles will fill Trafalgar Square with the faces of 850 trans people in a visual protest against transfemicide. Juliet Jacques reports.
Tag: art
ACFM: Microdose: Notes on Camp
Has camp changed culture forever? The gang revisit Susan Sontag's 1964 essay for an aesthetic Microdose.
Feature: Post-Soviet Countries Don’t Know What to Do With Their Monuments
Juliet Jacques
In December, Sofia decided to partially dismantle its monument to the Red Army, rekindling decades-old debates about where these pieces of Soviet history belong, writes Juliet Jacques.
Novara FM: 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.
Report: Years Later, Wildfires Blaze on in Survivors’ Minds
Charlie Hertzog Young
Three-quarters of survivors of Australian bushfires struggle with anxiety two years on. Charlie Hertzog Young reports.
Novara FM: The Art of the Psyop
The truth is out there – but increasingly hard to confirm, as artist Trevor Paglen explains.
Opinion: NFTs Are Just the Latest Example of Rich People Loving Ugly Shit
Rachel Connolly
Rich people have always bought ugly stuff, writes Rachel Connolly - it's what you do when you have more money than sense. The fact that normal people do too is the real mystery.
Novara FM: What Can Art Galleries Teach Us About Class Oppression?
The Tate's collection is a lesson in the making of class, explains Nathalie Olah.
Opinion: The North Has Always Been at the Cutting Edge of Culture
Kojo Koram
Forget the stereotypes, red wall voters aren’t inherently culturally conservative. The north has always pioneered culture.
Novara FM: 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.
Report: ‘It’s All Performative, They Don’t Care’: Why Tate Workers Are Going on Strike
Sophie K Rosa
Facing redundancy during a national recession and global pandemic, Tate workers are going on strike, arguing that, despite the art institution’s socially conscious image, it is the lowest-paid and most diverse workers who will be worst impacted. Sophie K Rosa reports.
Novara FM: 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
A private security firm that runs some of the worst immigration removal centres and prisons in the country has partnered with an arts charity to put on an exhibition of work by inmates and detainees.
Novara FM: 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.
OMFG Sarkar: Feminist Fictions
This International Women’s Day Ash Sarkar lists her favourite fictional feminist heroines
Novara FM: Is Political Art Good?
On this week's show James Butler and Ash Sarkar discuss the potential for art in articulating radical politics.