Activism
Anish Kapoor sues NRA for copyright infringement
An image of his Chicago sculpture Cloud Gate was used in a video by the gun lobby that the artist says “seeks to whip up fear and hate”
Open letter signed by over 100 artists, including Grayson Perry, slates UK’s education policy
New Ebacc qualification marginalises the arts and damages the future of young people in the country, say Turner prize winners
Art collective Indecline stages secret anti-Trump work in his New York hotel
The temporary prison installation featured live rats, McDonald’s wrappers and a handcuffed lookalike depicting “Trump’s likely fate”
Ethics and aesthetics: the increasing prominence of socially engaged art
Away from the glitz of record-breaking auction prices and extravagant art parties, austerity has given strength to a new movement of socially engaged artists
'Sexuality, Politics and Protest': The Frieze talk on activism after AIDS
Considering why artistic responses to the AIDS crisis are relevant today
Chris Bratton: “I see a new, pervasive and global condition of fundamentalist violence directed against dissident images and thought”
President of the San Francisco Art Institute on art and censorship
Artists in Malaysia facing censorship, ethnic separation and Islamicisation
But it is a lively scene that looks to the international art world