Alexander Adams
Alexander Adams is an artist, art critic and author. His book ‘Iconoclasm, Identity Politics and the Erasure of History’ is published by Societas. Follow him on Twitter @AdamsArtist
- Left-wing social justice collectives have captured Britain’s premier art prize. This ‘artivism’ is destroying the museums we love
The most provocative, politically woke Turner Prize shortlist so far has been announced, and it signals not only the death of the individual artist but, in time, the end of our great art institutions. - Aristotle and Plato must go. After targeting statues, race activists now aim to topple the ancient founders of Western thoughtAn academic says classics should be cut from university syllabi as it’s so “entangled with white supremacy as to be inseparable from it.” But depriving future generations of the wisdom of the past leads to ignorance & division.
- How Black Lives Matter, a Marxist political movement, toppled the establishment to become Art’s #1 powerbrokersArts Review has named BLM as the most dominant force in the art world – the first time a movement rather than an individual has been voted top. It just demonstrates all that’s wrong in the woke world of modern culture.
- A new statue depicting Medusa holding a man’s severed head symbolises what’s bad about #MeToo – and why it’s backfired on womenIn Greek mythology, men used to fear the stony gaze of the snake-haired Gorgon. Today, men once again feel such fear – but, ironically, no campaign has done more to impair women’s opportunities either.
- By postponing an exhibition featuring paintings of KKK figures, senseless censors are devaluing artAn exhibition by US painter Philip Guston has been put back until 2024, due to sensitivities over its Ku Klux Klan content. Political gestures like this compromise the art and insult the audience’s intelligence.
- Time for some NeuroSpeculative AfroFeminism Research: Forget activism, here comes ‘artivism’ in support of BLM’s aimsA new art exhibition opening in the UK this week is packed with so much neo-Marxist nonsense, I thought at first it must be a parody. Sadly, it’s not. But it is moralising, boring, and – you guessed it – taxpayer funded.
- The removal of a bust of the British Museum’s founder is no trivial issue. It is a step towards the erasure of the EnlightenmentThe wrong-headed decision to give the activists a victory by ‘toppling’ Hans Sloane will not end their campaign, but boost it. These people will not stop until they have destroyed the very principles of Western society.
- Why is the Uffizi using a TikTok video featuring a rap song that calls women ‘c**t bitches’ to promote its art? It’s moronicMany museum curators do not believe in high art anymore and are too ashamed to present our culture honestly. But pretending to be cool, and using pop culture to try to woo the young, betrays the values they should defend.
- Is this huge new cathedral to war Putin’s folly, or a magnificent, unique building that tells a lot about the East-West divide?The magnificent six billion ruble building in a forest outside Moscow can accommodate 6,000 people and is an unashamed paean to Russian military might. Would any Western nation dare erect such a public spectacle?
- No butts, nudity or guns, thanks: Social justice warriors who destroyed superhero comics turn their censorship sights on animeFans of Japanese animation are getting increasingly angry at the politically correct reworking of the cartoons when they’re translated into English.
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