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Labour’s Culture Secretary Is Missing in Action

Jan 14, 2025 | novaramedia.com | Juliet Jacques

Symbolically, Keir Starmer’s decision to deliver Labour’s 2024 election victory speech at the Tate Modern – the biggest and best-known national gallery to be opened under New Labour – was important.
The Last World War Veterans Are Dying. Cue New Heights of Remembrance Hysteria

Nov 15, 2024 | novaramedia.com | Juliet Jacques

Every November in Britain, you are guaranteed to see two things: comically exaggerated memorials to the soldiers killed in the two world wars, and media evisceration of any remotely public figure deemed to show insufficient respect. This year, it was the extravagant sound and light show at the Tower of London and the annual furore over Irish footballer James McClean’s refusal to wear a poppy or join his Wrexham teammates during a minute’s silence.
Donald Trump, Stand-Up Comic

Sep 27, 2024 | jacobin.com | Juliet Jacques

The first thing I should state is that, at least in the world-historical sense, Donald Trump is not funny. His first presidential term enabled the far right in the United States and emboldened Israel’s ongoing massacres, before his reckless decision to assassinate Qasem Soleimani nearly provoked a war with Iran. His failure to take COVID-19 […]
The Fourth Plinth Is About to Become a Trans Monument

Sep 3, 2024 | novaramedia.com | Juliet Jacques

Teresa Margolles’ commission for the Fourth Plinth at Trafalgar Square, Mil Veces un Instante (A Thousand Times in an Instant), is a kind of anti-monument. Born of grief rather than glory, it is a tribute to the trans and non-binary community in Margolles’s native Mexico, a statement against transmisogyny and transfemicide. From September, white plaster casts, like death masks but made from the faces of 726 living trans people in Mexico and the UK will be arranged on the plinth.
Behind India’s Iron Curtain

Aug 13, 2024 | msn.com | Juliet Jacques

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Behind India’s Iron Curtain

Aug 13, 2024 | tribunemag.co.uk | Juliet Jacques

It is not until the second half of Izabella Scott and Skye Arundhati Thomas’s short book that they reveal the meaning of their titular Pleasure Gardens.
Peter Kennard: Society of the Spectacle

Aug 6, 2024 | artreview.com | Juliet Jacques

Dissenting political movements in the UK are marginalised; the digital image is everywhere. Kennard’s ouvre of DIY imagemaking is starting to resemble a halcyon era of political expressionPeter Kennard’s retrospective at London’s Whitechapel Gallery, Archive of Dissent, opens with a workspace the artist has set up in the gallery’s former library.
Pedro Lemebel’s Last Supper

Aug 2, 2024 | tribunemag.co.uk | Juliet Jacques

A Last Supper Of Queer Apostles: Selected Essays by Pedro Lemebel, translated by Gwendolyn Harper, is published by Pushkin Press (2024). Much has been made on the Western left, for good reason, about the Chilean artists and writers who were killed during the CIA-backed counter-revolution of September 1973 and its aftermath, or who devoted their work in exile to criticising Augusto Pinochet’s far-right dictatorship.
London’s First Palestinian Cultural Centre Is Within Arm’s Reach

Jul 26, 2024 | novaramedia.com | Juliet Jacques

High Holborn is one of London’s busiest streets and leads to some of its most synonymous locations. The British Museum, St Paul’s Cathedral and the Royal Opera House are all a short walk away; the Tower of London and the Houses of Parliament are roughly equidistant to the east and west.
What Does ‘Brechtian’ Actually Mean?

Jul 5, 2024 | artreview.com | Juliet Jacques

A new show at Raven Row, London charts the evolution of Bertolt Brecht’s practice, and reenlivens his plays and films as tools for raising political consciousness todayBertolt Brecht is one of a handful of twentieth-century writers who created such a distinctive body of work, and achieved such fame, that his name has become an adjective.