Counter Arts

The struggles we fight are not confined to our own countries. No one is free until everyone is free

It’s complicated

What’s so scary about spandex?

Exploring the sadistic world

But it is still frustrating and, arguably, entirely pointless

Reflecting on 34 years of old-school “selfies”

Considered the most vital writer in Spanish and one of the greatest authors in history, the figure of Cervantes continues to be studied…

Kent Monkman’s exhibition at the Denver Art Museum dares the viewer to rethink history and sexuality

If governments have nothing to hide, then why are they hiding?

(Cu Li Không Bao Gio Khóc by Pham Ngoc Lan, 2024)

It’s the smash no-one saw coming. So what is Sinners, and what makes it so unique?

When the world falls apart, why do we still draw?

A female artist records the horror

In the quaint Polish town of Toruń a monument commemorates a cult classic in this genre that was released in 1964.

Will the Broadway show ‘Come From Away’ land differently now in audience hearts?

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times — indeed, that very well-known line is just as prescient as it ever was; a sentence…

The opening of Laurent Cantet’s "The Workshop" (2017) is a clip from a computer game of a warrior riding his horse up a mountain. The…

Sidney Lumet’s 1971 heist thriller marks a turning point in film history

Yet again, America goes full America and people are shocked. This isn’t news, people, and it never has been.

Protest Vietnam War, get threatened with deportation

It’s not just a game

(And how the unbearable exists because we let it)

In no other civilisation do we value thinness as we do in the West

The anthology show pushes our current realities to horrifying extremes