For this very special episode we are joined by very special guest Riley O'Keeffe for a very special discussion about activism in the arts.

We take a look at how funding ties have caused art galleries, and in some cases artworks themselves, to be the target of activist groups.

We also discuss some examples of artwork that has been made as a form of protest, and try to guess why certain modern acts of protest have not been as successful as they could have been.

Links:

The Just Stop Oil Van Gogh Soup Throwing Incident

Just Stop Oil vs. The Rokeby Venus

Nan Goldin vs. The Sacklers

Maps of Gratitude, Cones of Silence and Lumps of Coal (2019): map linking connections between the arts and fossil fuel industry.

Interactive Map

Black Square protest at the TATE

Pro-Palestine Protest at the MoMA and Hamburger Bahnof

Guerrilla Girls

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