Articles

Provocations In Art

Ai Weiwei and Anish Kapoor's solidarity walk

RA Exhibitions

9 years ago

Art and activism: can it change the world?

Performance and protest is key to the work of Ai Weiwei, as it is to many of his contemporaries. But in the face of global crisis, can art really effect change? Professor Jen Harvie explores the role of the artist-activist.
Allen Jones RA, Chair

Opinion

< 10 years ago

Allen Jones’s ‘Chair’: the debate

Ahead of our Provocations in Art Salon, speakers Stacy Boldrick, Lyndsey Morgan and Grace Woodward describe their first reactions to a work that has sparked everything from vandalism to real-life re-creation. What’s your view?