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Bitcoin: The Culture of Cryptocurrency
The artist and gallery owner embracing Bitcoin
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Picturing a New Zimbabwe
Making art under Mugabe and opening a new chapter for Zimbabwe
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Australia says Yes
We hear from Australian artists after the country's historic vote for marriage equality.
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Punk, Protest and Pussy Riot
Pussy Riot's Maria Alyokhina on her manifesto for change through artistic action.
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#MeToo: Challenging Sexual Harrassment in Nollywood and Bollywood
How are Nollywood and Bollywood responding to sexual harassment in Hollywood?
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How I Made My Own Emoji
Meet the high school student who set out to make the first hijabi emoji.
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Iran's Refugee Rocket Man
The Iranian artist who went from a Calais migrant camp to animating for Elton John.
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The Saudi Artist Putting Women in the Driving Seat
The Saudi digital artist bringing her aspirations alive through her imagery
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The Movie Making Inmate of Manus Island
How a detainee's smartphone film shed light on Australia's controversial detention centre
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Wounds of War: Angola's Troubled Past
Artist Kiluanji Kia Henda on using art to examine Angola's civil war wounds
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Catalan Culture and the Question of Independence
Two Catalan cultural figures discuss the charged issue of the independence referendum.
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Combat and Culture: Women on the Frontline
Women in combat: They're on the real frontline, so why so rarely seen in popular culture?
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The Lagos Comic Con and Nigerian Superheroes
Lagos Comic Con founder Ayodele Elegba on the rise of the Nigerian comic book industry.
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The Cultural Cost of Hurricane Harvey
How important are the arts at a time of great human cost in a natural disaster?
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An Act Of Censorship Or Cultural Sensitivity?
Should a divisive, traumatising sculpture have been dismantled?
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Music In Extremis: A Pop Concert in Kabul
Singer Aryana Sayeed defied clerics and conservatives to mark Afghan Independence Day.
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Picturing Politics: An Artist鈥檚 Response to the Kenyan Election
Kenyan-British artist Michael Armitage explores the visual spectacle of an election rally
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Beyond the Borders of Partition
Independence day, 70 years on. The birth of two new nations, India and Pakistan.
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Can Music Influence our View of the World?
Ramy Essam is an Egyptian musician whose song became the anthem for the Arab Spring
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When Coming Out is a Dangerous Thing
Acknowledging the artists for whom coming out in their work is a risky thing to do.
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The Serious Business of Comedy
Navigating the line between funny and offensive
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The Artist Under Attack by Pizzagate Trolls
Maria Marshall often features her children in her work; now she鈥檚 being attacked for it
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A Tale of Defending Our Freedom Wins the Caine Prize 2017
Caine Prize winner Bushra al-Fadil warns of the relentless threats to our freedom
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US Surveillance as Art
Exploring Ai Wei Wei's exhibition on surveillance which tracks visitors with drones.
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Saudi TV Drama on Life Under So-Called Islamic State
The Cultural Frontline: where arts and news collide.
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Wonder Woman ban in Lebanon
Why has the new Hollywood superhero movie Wonder Woman been banned in Lebanon?
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Rosa Parks' House Finds a New Home
Why is the house of American civil rights hero Rosa Parks now in a Berlin suburb?
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The Cultural Legacy of the Russian Revolution
Take a tour of the Hope, Tragedy, Myths exhibition at the British Library in London
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Rejecting the Urge to 'Make America Great Again'
Author Richard Ford argues everyone has a dream not just Americans
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How does the Experience of Emigration Affect a Writer鈥檚 Work?
Lila Azam Zanganeh on the creativity that comes from having multiple identities