The artist and the Kurdish revolutionaries
It’s the middle of a war zone, and something unexpected is taking place: a Dutch artist has joined with Kurdish revolutionaries to build their…
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The surprising academic origins of memes
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Brutalism in Tangier, Morocco’s most artistic city
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Tea and Heroin with a Tribal Chief in Al Qaeda Territory
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Collage art and activism in Chile: Instagram posts building on the legacy of Latin American ‘mail art’
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Democracy in the Animal Kingdom. Read how animals vote to make group decisions
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Toilet graffiti: secrets, support and solidarity in the women’s restroom
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The forgotten half-widows of Kashmir’s armed conflict
Among the devastating effects of war is one that is often witnessed yet hard to truly quantify: hundreds of thousands of people go missing…
Artist response to Christchurch collapse
Staying in Christchurch, New Zealand for anything longer than a few days is not on the usual traveler’s itinerary. Two earthquakes in 2011 flattened…
The Palestinian Museum opened without artefacts, but it’s still a beacon of hope
An astonishing new cultural institution for the Middle East has now opened to the public. Situated on a hilltop near Ramallah in the West…
What does the solar system sound like?
“In space, no one can hear you scream” was the tagline of the 1979 box office film success Alien. And it’s true. Sound waves…
The double pronged assault on Norway’s Arctic wilderness
After a week spent ski touring in Lyngen, my breath has just been returned to me. The terrain is out of this world with…
Calling a Cambulance: the Desert’s Answer to Emergency Services
In developed countries, an ambulance can reach the scene of a medical emergency in a matter of minutes, with first world innovations and infrastructure…
Bonobo: Migration | Album Review
On Migration, Simon Green, the man behind Bonobo, achieves his best work to date. Migration manages to both refine the sound that Green has…
Introducing street art collective – Pangea
In Bristol, art doesn’t just come on canvases. On the national street art scene, Bristol’s history in street art is incomparable, and it is…
On Indian Street Art: Challenging the Everyday and Brightening up the A to B
“Even if you do not come up with a picture to remove world poverty, you can make someone smile while they are having a piss.”…
Welcome to City Plaza, Athens: a new approach to housing refugees
There are now around 55,000 people stranded in Greece as a result of Europe’s failed response to the so-called migration crisis – and many…
Turkmenistan’s “Door to Hell” Fire pit Sparks Global Interest
Is it a physical manifestation of Dante’s threshold to the underworld or a less mythopoetic scientific wonder? Turkmenistan’s “Door to Hell” might be the…
Ai Weiwei: examining freedom of expression through rubble and relics
For an artist, freedom and the ability to share ideas with other like-minded people is essential. In China, artists have to negotiate strict…
Guernica: Where the wall speaks
The bombing of Guernica (26 April 1937) was an aerial attack on the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. It was…
Five films that will help you understand the modern Arab World
A number of catastrophic events have afflicted the Arab world in recent years. Western news reporting and Hollywood cinema tend to present these crises…
