The Painted Protest, by Dean Kissick

How politics destroyed contemporary art

December 2024 Issue [Essay] The Painted Protest Adjust Share How politics destroyed contemporary art by Dean Kissick , Illustrations by Franz Lang My mother lost both of her legs on the way to the Barbican Art Gallery. It was her day off, and she was going there to see an exhibition called Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art. She had just arrived in London on a coach from Oxford and was run over by a bus outside Victoria Station. This was on a Friday morning in early May. The next day, in my apartment in Manhattan, I received an unexpected call—my mother never calls me—from a tr

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