Art Bulletin

On the last Sunday of each month, the Art team shares the main news and curiosities about artistic movements and culture in the Global South.

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31 May 2026

A Revolution Can Only Be the Child of Culture and Ideas

While imperialist offensives weaponise culture to neutralise resistance, a radical truth remains: art, literature, and imagination are never separate from political struggle, but a necessary form of collective defiance in building a new society.

26 April 2026

You Cannot Swallow a Needle, However Small: Okinawa’s Sculptor of Resistance

Sculptor Kinjo Minoru honors the lives of Okinawans driven to mass suicide by the Imperial Japanese Army at Chibichiri Cave in April 1945 during the World Anti-Fascist War.

29 March 2026

We Tell Stories: Dispelling Myths through Feminism and Argentine Comics

The cultural collective Feminismo Gráfico (Graphic Feminism) honours 8M by dispelling myths around the histories of women, trans, and non-binary comics artists in Argentina.

1 March 2026

Samba for Popular Agrarian Reform

For this year’s Carnaval in Brazil, the MST and Acadêmicos do Tatuapé, one of São Paulo’s samba schools, collaborated on a samba-enredo (Carnaval theme song) calling for popular agrarian reform.

31 January 2026

When the Revolution Comes, Our Songs Will Be Sung

Korean social movements are repurposing the tradition of minjung-gayo (people’s music) by creatively incorporating K-pop and messages about women’s struggles today.

28 December 2025

Saint José Gregorio Hernández and the Splendour of Venezuelan Popular Resistance

Amid the Trump administration’s intensified imperialist siege in the Caribbean, Venezuelans have turned to the recently canonised Saint José Gregorio Hernández (1864–1919) as a symbol of national pride, unity, and steadfastness.

30 November 2025

The Intellectual Who Does Not Fight for Revolution at All Times Is a False Intellectual

Across the long arc of Zionist ethnic cleaning, land grabbing, and forced migration, Palestinians have continued to use cultural production as a tool of resistance.

26 October 2025

Photographing What Is Most Human in Us: Brazil’s Struggle for Land and Over the Image

Registros da Terra, a photography campaign by Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement (MST), encourages workers to take up the camera to condemn environmental crimes and uplift a possible model of coexistence between humans and nature.

28 September 2025

Woodcuts Against Fascism from Shanghai to Mexico City

Eighty years after the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War, we remember how artists from China to Mexico have used art as a practice of solidarity and a tool for revolutionary social transformation.

31 August 2025

New Symbols for a New Sovereignty: Sahel Benkan

The renewed struggle for sovereignty in the Sahel has been marked by advances in the cultural sphere, with new symbols to signal the break from neocolonialism.

27 July 2025

Augusto Boal’s Copernican Revolution in Reverse

Fifty years after the publication of Técnicas Latino-americanas de teatro popular, we revisit Augusto Boal’s vision of a ‘Copernican revolution in reverse’ to reclaim the Global South as the centre of artistic and political imagination.

29 June 2025

Let Us Cry for Our Beloved Country: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

We honour the life and legacy of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1938–2025): revolutionary, writer, and prophet of the African soul. Remember his oeuvre, his exile, his fight and the future he envisioned

25 May 2025

Poetry Against Fascism

During WWII, poetry was a weapon. From the siege of Leningrad to the streets of Santiago, words inspired hope and remembered the fallen. Discover the art that emanated from the Battle of Stalingrad.