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NFTs and art under capitalism

Details Nelson Wan logo 08 Jun 2022

In recent months, investors have poured money into NFTs – ‘non-fungible tokens’ – and other speculative digital assets. This is a symptom of the sickness of capitalism, and of how corrupted and commodified art has become under the profit system.

Arts and culture in crisis: Make the bosses pay!

Details Emma Stanhope, Norwich Marxists logo 11 Nov 2020

Cultural institutions and venues are facing an existential threat. But the Tories have shown only callousness and contempt towards artists and the arts. Capitalism is killing our culture. We need a socialist fightback to save it.

Portraits from the pandemic: Artists highlight the role of NHS workers

Details Nicholas Baldion logo 26 May 2020

Artist Nicholas Baldion explains how the art community is depicting the lives of those on the frontline in the fight against the pandemic, paying homage to workers in the NHS and elsewhere.

William Blake: breaking the mind-forg'd manacles

Details Joe Attard logo 05 Dec 2019

An exhibition of William Blake's work has opened at the Tate. Blake was a political radical in his own time. Though limited by his bourgeois outlook, his work captured the horror and indignity of the emerging capitalist mode of production.

Review - "Red Star Over Russia": The art of revolution

Details Ben Curry logo 22 Nov 2017

The “Red Star Over Russia” exhibition, which opened at the Tate Modern earlier this month, is the latest in a number of exhibitions marking the 1917 Russian Revolution centenary. Ben Curry reviews the fascinating collection of artwork, photography, and propoganda contained within this latest showcase.

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