Artists 4 Israel: Whitewashing Apartheid
Art, according to the renowned filmographer Tarkovsky, can only be considered realistic when it strives to express an ethical ideal. “Realism,” he said, “is striving for truth, and truth is always beautiful.” There are many who would argue that art is apolitical, but in reality, as Helen Lewis of the New Statesman points out, every piece of public art inadvertently constitutes a political statement, even the ones that support the […]