Visual art has, in general, been slow to respond to the challenge of the occupation of Iraq and the "war on terror" – but now things seem to be changing.
The Definitive CollectionRachid TahaCD out now This new retrospective album shows the range of the Algerian-born and French-based singer Rachid Taha, who mixes rock, rai and breakbeats.
Simon Reynolds is the author of Rip It Up And Start Again, a critically acclaimed history of the "postpunk" music scene that emerged out of the punk rock explosion of the mid 1970s and continued for the next decade or so, taking the energy of punk but blending it with radical politics and experimental musical techniques.
Kester Aspden's new book Nationality: Wog – The Hounding Of David Oluwale is an extraordinary piece of social history that investigates the persecution and lonely death of David Oluwale in 1960s Leeds.
Merdeka (freedom)Various artistsCD out now This compilation of music from around the world has been released in solidarity with the West Papuan struggle for freedom from Indonesian rule.
"If he can preach it, we can sing it." Those were the words of Pops Staples, the father of Mavis, after he heard Martin Luther King speaking in Alabama in 1963.
If you only see one piece of live theatre this year, make sure it is Daniel Kramer’s production of Angels In America. Running to more than seven hours – including three intervals – this staging of Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic play is powerfully engaging and deeply moving from beginning to end.
VoltaBjorkCD out now Bjork’s new album, like all of her works, is full of stunning vocals and amazing music.
Like many zombie films, 28 Weeks Later has a message about contemporary politics and society. Its message is that the US military is far more dangerous than a plague of flesh eating monsters.
This exhibition is housed in the former stable block of the mock medieval Penrhyn Castle near Bangor, north Wales.
This exhibition strongly makes the point about links between Wales and the slave trade. The transatlantic slave trade underlays many aspects of the social, political and economic development of Wales and had an impact on almost everyone.
Invisible Cities is the latest project by acclaimed Northern Irish photographer Paul Seawright. It is based around a startling fact.
