Political Art
Interview with Shirin Neshat: “For Iranian artists, being silent is like taking the side of the demon”
As her debut movie, “Women Without Men”, screens in Basel, the artist explains that cinema is closer to her people
Interview with Jenny Holzer: In her own words (or not, as the case may be)
The American artist on her “odd and lonely” childhood, other people’s texts and why she’s returned to painting
Why paintings succeed where words fail: Interview with Luc Tymans
The Belgian artist talked to us about the messages art can convey on the eve of exhibitions in Europe, Russia and the United States
Interview with Grayson Perry: The “The Guernica of the credit crunch”
Perry is about to show his most ambitious work, a huge tapestry depicting images of consumer excess and retribution
Two artists and an soldier are taking the war in Iraq to the American people
A British conceptual artist, an Iraqi artist, and a US soldier who served in Iraq travelled from New York to Los Angeles with the remains of a car destroyed in a Baghdad bomb attack in tow
Interview with Jeremy Deller on tackling the troubled legacy of Iraq War
Turner prize-winner to take the controversial show on a three-week tour of the US in late March
The Disarmory presents artists who have conceptually disarmed a work of their choosing
Themed events at the fair include, “Armed and Dangerous” and “The Wartime Ball”, taking place this weekend
Pakistan’s contemporary museum launches with anti-war art
President Musharraf has encouraged artists to promote a “peaceful and tolerant” image of their country through their work
News from New York: Larry Gagosian gets exposed while US presidents get hosed
Meanwhile, doctors form an art club and Mimran takes on Type A
Allora & Calzadilla: sonic warfare for Moore Space project
The artists have installed a concrete-grey fortification inside the gallery as an anti-war statement
Amateur painter's Anti-Bush painting in cafeteria exhibition enrages Republicans
But California Attorney General defends freedom of speech
As conservatives switch their sights from art to social issues, are the culture wars over for artists?
The Bush administration and its supporters now have their guns trained on social policy
Nancy Spero's War series on display at Galerie Lelong
The artistic equivalent of standing in front of a tank
Artists lead anti-war protests as the US prepares to invade Iraq
Polls show the public could not care less what the art world thinks
Anti-American slogans by artists are painted over, allegedly for fear of alienating a US sponsor
An act of censorship or tact?
Luc Tymans: on pigeon power
Belgium's representative at this year's Venice Biennale explains why pigeons are not symbols of peace, how he depicts violence without actually showing it and why he returned to painting
Jenny Holzer: towards the mot juste
The US artist on text being just one medium in her work and how trying to measure up to Goya can keep her motionless for months
Leon Golub is still getting to the real at the Brooklyn Museum of Art
Charles Saatchi and Eli Broad both collect him, but only 13 US museums have examples of this artistic rebel’s work
Books: Documenting war, populism, protest and propaganda
Three books show that the depiction of war in art is as various as other human responses to the phenomenon
Books: Modernism behind the Iron Curtain and in wartime Paris
The progress of Modernism in the Communist States and the response of the French Avant-garde to World War I are examined in these two books
What's on in New York: From Andre Emmerich to Zabriskie
Major show of political art dominates at John Weber Gallery, and there is also a new group of Rauschenberg’s (this year’s flavour) and Beckmann, Barlach, Lehmbruck and Constable on offer