Reflection on ‘WAKCHAKUNA / We Who Share Everything and Nothing’ at Nottingham Contemporary
Claudia Martínez Garay’s latest exhibition, inspired by Peru’s Inca and Moche cultures, has much to teach about art, sexuality, and language.
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Migration Museum: NHS Exhibition review
The Migration Museum’s ‘Heart of the Nation’ exhibition explores how migrants built Britain’s NHS, even in the face of systemic racism.
From Gill Sans, to Sans Gill: The Controversy over the Work of Eric Gill
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Collective punishment and colonial terror: The lessons of Britain’s war in Malaya
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Medicine and Colonization: How Scientific Research Shapes Politics
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Empty Spaces: Where are the Statues to Imperial Victims?
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An Interview with Isabella Hammad: Part Two
This is the second part of an interview with Isabella Hammad, the author of The Parisian: an epic tale of a Palestinian man’s journey beginning at the outbreak of the First World War.
An Interview with Isabella Hammad: Part One
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Sir John A. Macdonald: National Hero or Architect of Genocide?
On Saturday August 29, 2020, Black Lives Matter and Indigenous Rights protestors unbolted and pulling …
