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Articles

Protest

Artists

4 years ago

Family how-to: paint a protest poster

Joining a protest? Here’s how you can collage, stencil or paint a protest poster to hold high above your head!

Tom Hammick, Waiting for Time

RA Recommends

> 4 years ago

This week: five top art shows to see

From a project tracing Lithuania’s toppled political statues, to a show of flesh in its many forms, here’s our pick the week’s top art shows.
Ai Weiwei and Anish Kapoor's solidarity walk

RA Exhibitions

> 5 years ago

Art and activism: can it change the world?

Performance and protest is key to the work of Ai Weiwei, as it is to many of his contemporaries. But in the face of global crisis, can art really effect change? Professor Jen Harvie explores the role of the artist-activist.