by Julie Krejčí Last week we looked at the origins of decolonization and its connection to art. Today I want to delve into art history, as a means of showing the past in its full complexity. The academic writing regarding...

by Julie Krejčí The Western world; sparkles from the outside, while rotting rapidly on the inside. The very strategies that brought it to where it now has only stolen, destroyed and appropriated cultures all around the world. Modern imperialism and...

by Julie Krejčí On Friday, October 14th, two activists from the environmentalist group Just Stop Oil, Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland, glued themselves to the wall in the National Gallery, London after throwing tomato soup Van Gogh’s notorious painting ‘Sunflowers’....

by Julie Krejčí Artistic value has always been the at the centre of debate when it comes to understanding why art is such a vital part of our lives. Scholars have not been able to come up with a definitive...