The guest curator of this year’s Meltdown Festival at London’s Southbank Centre is music legend David Byrne.
New band Algiers from the US deep south are about to tour Europe. Bassist Ryan Mahan spoke to Kevin McCaighy about their music and their politics
Gaza on Gaza is an exhibition by Palestinian artists put together in response to Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip last summer.
The Red Women’s Workshop was a women’s silkscreen printing collective producing work for the Women’s Liberation Movement in the 1970s and 1980s. A new exhibition in Huddersfield brings together prints, posters and illustrations it produced including Bite the Hand (pictured),
A new museum was meant to celebrate working class womens’ resistance. Instead it has glorified their murders, writer Louise Raw tells Judith Orr
This is a rare chance to see the work of street photographer Shirley Baker.
This exhibition features a variety of portraits by contemporary artists and photographers.
Old home movies and newsreels have been in the news recently. But there is more to see than just rich Nazis.
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against the apartheid Israeli state made headlines at last year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Fifty years after anti-racist classic To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee’s characters reappear in the unsettling Go Set A Watchman, writes Sarah Ensor
Nina Simone walked slowly onto the stage, glared at the audience, then berated her musicians for playing too fast.
