Political Art
Censored? London premiere of Andres Serrano’s Capitol attack film pulled for being 'pro-Trump'
US artist says that Prince Charles Cinema has “misinterpreted” his work
Art and activist body a/political to open London space with exhibition by Russian artist facing trial over sex video
Pyotr Pavlensky has been ordered to stand trial in France over leaked sex videos that brought down a close ally of President Emmanuel Macron
In one of UK’s largest art commissioning programmes, 22 artists receive £2.5m to explore the impact of war
Michael Rakowitz and Heather Phillipson among those selected to create new works through Imperial War Museums' 14-18 NOW Legacy Fund
Uyghurs, mass incarceration and Ukraine before the invasion: three political presentations to see at Photo London
Strong messages are present in a number of booths at this year's edition of the UK's biggest photography fair
Archival discovery prompts exploration of 1980s movement to support Central American artists at time of political upheaval
A dozen boxes of materials found in the Museum of Modern Art’s library served as the impetus for a new exhibition on the legacy of the Artists Call group at Tufts University Art Galleries
Guerrilla Girls: corrupt museum boards, the female nude and NFTs
Plus, Glasgow International festival and Cézanne at MoMA
The fight against Putin: artists on the frontline
Plus, India reconstructs its history and Navid Nuur on Walter de Maria
‘Britain’s most important political artist’ Peter Kennard joins London gallery
Richard Saltoun exhibition will include artist’s earliest works incorporating newspaper images
Can artists change the world? MoMA show explores political art from the early 20th-century
The works on paper from the Merrill C. Berman Collection include designs for Communist posters and salad oil advertisements
Consulates provide new safe haven for political art in China
Artists tackling contentious issues have found an unlikely home in the form of foreign diplomatic services such as the Goethe-Institut and consular residences
Exiled Kurdish artist—who smuggled paintings from her Turkish jail cell—wins inaugural Carol Rama Award
Zehra Doğan was imprisoned for nearly three years under terrorism charges for work of art shared on Twitter
Philip Guston drew Richard Nixon's face as a hairy scrotum and phallus—what would he make of President Trump?
The physiognomy of deviousness, greed, ruthless opportunism, risible self-importance and gobsmacking albeit garden variety stupidity provides artists of Guston’s bent and calibre with a virtually bottomless well of imagery
Influential political cartoonist Steve Bell dropped by the Guardian newspaper after 40 years
Biting satirist looks to art history for some of his caricatures, such as a recent sketch of Boris Johnson as Mona Lisa
Political cartoonist Gerald Scarfe tells the story of his life and work in new book
For more than 60 years the rapier-sharp pen has wounded his enemies deeply and he has met all the great and the good of our day
Peter Kennard’s artistic political commentaries cloy when they are presented altogether as they are in this book
The artist’s unremitting commitment to the Left may be commendable, but has limited his development as an artist
As crisis deepens, activists stage pro-democracy exhibition in Hong Kong
Show at WMA Space tells the “story of HongKongers” through protest ephemera
Forged in war, revolution and turmoil, works head for Les Rencontres d’Arles
The annual photography festival assembles works that open up doors closed by political turbulence
Tate Modern chronicles the rise of Black Power in post-war America
Soul of a Nation includes around 150 works looking at the realities of the African American experience
Rebellion show marks 1967 Detroit riot
Organised by the Detroit Institute of Arts, it is one of many commemorative events occurring throughout the city
Saudi Arabian artist Gharem’s first US solo show escapes shadow of 9/11
Political and poignant, Gharem's art reflects on one of the defining moments of the 21st century
The verdict that flies in the face of art history: Luc Tuymans guilty of copyright infringement
A Belgian court recently found Tuymans guilty, a ruling that ignores appropriation’s vital role in art over the centuries and has worrying implications for the future
Artists confront violence across the Middle East in new exhibition opening in Amsterdam
“Fight History” is the second in the "Crisis of History" series on at the Tolhuistuin
Interview with Mike Nelson: On the biennale, Turkey, and being “not quite sure what installation is…”
His work at the Venice Biennale has meant rebuilding an installation inside a rebuilt caravanserai within the British Pavilion
Interview with Jonathan Meese: "I am the samurai of art”
The German artist explains why he puts aggression and provocation centre stage—along with his mum
Interview with Shirin Neshat: “For Iranian artists, being silent is like taking the side of the demon”
As her debut movie, “Women Without Men”, screens in Basel, the artist explains that cinema is closer to her people
Interview with Jenny Holzer: In her own words (or not, as the case may be)
The American artist on her “odd and lonely” childhood, other people’s texts and why she’s returned to painting
Why paintings succeed where words fail: Interview with Luc Tymans
The Belgian artist talked to us about the messages art can convey on the eve of exhibitions in Europe, Russia and the United States
Interview with Grayson Perry: The “The Guernica of the credit crunch”
Perry is about to show his most ambitious work, a huge tapestry depicting images of consumer excess and retribution
Two artists and an soldier are taking the war in Iraq to the American people
A British conceptual artist, an Iraqi artist, and a US soldier who served in Iraq travelled from New York to Los Angeles with the remains of a car destroyed in a Baghdad bomb attack in tow