Robert Hullot-Kentor in Conversation with Fabio Akcelrud Durão One recent afternoon, Fabio Akcelrud Durão, a Brazilian literary theorist, paid a visit to the home…
Cuba: libertarians warn of impending "wave of repression" Libertarians and Independent activists in the cultural sphere in Cuba are bracing themselves for…
Dada: a short history A short account of the Dada movement that developed during the First World War in radical revulsion to the society that had let it come about.
King Mob poster and image gallery Posters, stickers and images produced by Situationist-influenced group King Mob. Taken from www.revoltagainstplenty.com and other online sources…
Useful work versus useless toil - William Morris An article on the nature of work by the nineteenth century libertarian socialist craftsman/artist and designer.
Flowers for Homestead at Dulwich Picture Gallery - Practical History Leaflets distributed at a talk on Henry Frick's art collection, reflecting on the 1892 Homestead strike, and the origins of the wealth of the industrialists whose collections founded many of Britain's major art galleries.
William Blake takes on GlaxoSmithKline - Practical History Report of a 2001 action at the Tate Britain Gallery in London, against a William Blake exhibition…
Surrealism in the Arab world Article printed in the journal Arsenal: Surrealist Subversion no.3, 1976, including The Manifesto of the Arab Surrealist Movement, 1975.
Art as Form of Reality - Herbert Marcuse Marcuse discusses the traditional conservative role of art in society, artistic challenges to traditional art forms in the 1970s - and what role…
Socialism and the Avant-Garde, 1880-1914 - Eric Hobsbawm Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm's account of the relationship between the prewar artistic avant…
The Closed Window Onto Another Life - endangeredphoenix Culture is the commodity that sells the whole of the commodity economy. But a critique of art and of…
The Dream of Fluxus, by George Macuinas The Baltic’s recent Fluxus show can’t entirely conceal the radical ambition and potential of avant-garde art, finds Tom Jennings.