Videogames speak culture with ever increasing fluency, but cultural policy doesn’t speak much videogame (yet)
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Review: Folkestone triennial – beached bungalows and giant jelly mould pavilions
Antony Gormley sculptures lurk under the promenade, Richard Woods invades town with huts for second-homers, while Bob and Roberta Smith treats local kids to art lessons. An eye-catching battle is raging at the Kent seaside between rich and poor, social decay and civic pride
Continue Reading...World of leather: how Tom of Finland created a legendary gay aesthetic
His subversive drawings ridiculed authority figures and inspired the look of Freddie Mercury and the Village People. A new film tells the story of Touko Laaksonen’s rise to become Europe’s kinkiest art export
Continue Reading...The rise in art protests: how the gallery became a new battleground
An exhibit by controversial artist Dana Schultz, accused of profiting from black pain, has led to anger, the latest in an increasingly long line of art world protests
Continue Reading...How art is being used to explore America’s shameful legacy of lynching
A new exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum examines the history of racial persecution in the US while steering clear of explicit violence
Continue Reading...Building Prey: how artists shape video game worlds
Via concept art and sketches, we look at how developer Arkane envisaged one of the most visually spectacular games of the year
Continue Reading...‘We found it rolled up in a tube’: Alice Cooper discovers Warhol classic after 40 years
The rock star Alice Cooper has found an Andy Warhol masterpiece that could be worth millions “rolled up in a tube” in a storage locker.
Continue Reading...REVIEW: Soul of a Nation – the extraordinary art of the black power era
Tate Modern, London
Civil rights meet aesthetics in this riveting survey of 20 crucial years of black American art and struggle
Review: Soul of a Nation – the sorrowful, shattering art of black power
Tate Modern, London
Searing artistic responses to the agony of America’s racial struggle sit alongside powerful abstracts by forgotten artists. This compelling show puts the battle for civil rights in a brutal, brilliant new light
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power
What part did black artists play in America’s civil rights struggle? They reinvented Superman and took a seven-mile artwork through Harlem. As the Tate tackles this tumultuous era with Soul of a Nation, we meet the show’s star attractions
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