RUSHES 01.1 at Metroland Cultures
7 July 2025 • Mark Westall
Metroland Cultures begins a new programme of artist projects, research, exhibitions & events with Rushes 01.1 at the Metroland Cultures gallery.
Tag: politics
The Showroom presents IN·FLO·RES·CENCE – collision of art and music to explore the socio-political power of jazz
1 September 2020 • Irene Machetti
The Showroom, a contemporary art space based in London, teamed up with Filmmaker Producer Reece Ewing to present IN·FLO·RES·CENCE – a major new project which sees 12 musicians from across the globe create new compositions in response to daily life during the pandemic.
Politics of Food— Delfina Foundation’s eclectic collection of provocations, propositions, ideas and recipes
16 December 2019 • Irene Machetti
Delfina Foundation recently launched its new publication Politics of Food, which gathers together research dating back to the origins of the foundation itself.
Where’s the food? Accumulation by Dispossession at Delfina Foundation
8 May 2019 • Irene Machetti
Ex-Delfina Resident Asunción Molinos Gordo explores the inequalities inherent in the global food system in her first UK solo exhibition Accumulation by Dispossession. Curated by Dani Burrows.
Graphic Witness (Group Show) – Drawing Room, Bermondsey, London
14 June 2017 • Staff
Bermondsey’s Drawing Room styles itself as Europe’s only public non-profit gallery dedicated to drawing.
Jeremy Deller behind ‘strong and stable my arse’ posters in London
25 May 2017 • Syndicate
Turner prize-winning artist says he hopes posters are self-explanatory – especially after Theresa May’s social care U-turn
Where there’s muck: Artangel artist wraps Houses of Parliament in latex
25 May 2016 • Syndicate
Permission for artwork – the largest ever to be installed in Westminster Hall – took six years to obtain, and will showcase 200 years’ worth of dirt and dust
Warhol demonised Nixon. Heartfield took on Hitler. Where is Trump’s artistic mauling?
3 March 2016 • Staff
The best political art is always viciously negative. And the monsterly qualities of Donald Trump are crying out for some hard-hitting mockery. So where are the likes of Chuck Close and Jeff Koons?
Council rejects plans to turn London car park into 800 artists’ studios
11 November 2015 • Mark Westall
Southwark opts for rival proposal from Mayfair-based property developer that includes only 50 artists’ spaces in Peckham multistorey
Daniel’s Value and Ideas #68: She Screams for Britain Daddio!
8 May 2015 • daniel barnes
Let’s take a moment to congratulate Sarah Lucas on being one of the best artists alive.
Tabish’s Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
27 April 2015 • Tabish Khan
Politics, skater girls, hyper-realism, 3D sculpture and photography meets collage
Tabish’s Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London this week
22 February 2015 • Tabish Khan
This week’s top 5 features abstract painting, the politics of war, aerial photography, twitter and veiled figures
Hanging Man: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei, by Barnaby Martin – review
6 April 2013 • Mark Westall
This account, based on illicit interviews, reveals an artist weakened by incarceration, but a figurehead still for China’s vital cultural movement
It’s a man’s world… but why is sexism ingrained in the arts?
24 March 2013 • Mark Westall
Once again, the top jobs at two major British cultural institutions, the BBC and the Royal Opera House, have gone to male appointees
Anish Kapoor and Antony Gormley donate works for Labour auction
22 March 2013 • Mark Westall
Actor Sir Patrick Stewart and author Sarah Waters also offer prizes at party’s first annual arts dinner
Turner prize winner Elizabeth Price warns against marginalisation of arts
5 December 2012 • Mark Westall
Price criticises introduction of Ebacc and withdrawal of state funding for humanities and arts at universities
Arts Council England jobs to be cut
31 October 2012 • Mark Westall
More than 100 jobs will go at funding body, which also faces regional restructuring
Bob and Roberta Smith: Why I’m making an art protest to Michael Gove
19 October 2012 • Mark Westall
My placard for the Future that Works march highlights the importance of creativity in schools. Make your own banners – and bring the art of protest to the demo
Mayfair’s Cork Street art hub under threat from developers
24 September 2012 • Mark Westall
Half of galleries may be forced out as upmarket London art district faces being ‘killed off by the greed of the landlords’
Lambeth council lambasted for arts centre sale
14 February 2012 • Mark Westall
Stockwell Studios sold by ‘John Lewis council’ to housing developer after artists spent £70,000 on renovations
BLASPHEMY- Group show at Plato Pamplona, Barcelona from 26th May 2010
25 May 2010 • Mark Westall
Image:Konrad Wyrebek “Byonce is the new black Madnna” installation with oil painting, gaffer tape, cut aluminum shapes, salt Blasphemy in… Read More