Philippine lawmakers deny licence to broadcaster critical of DuterteArtReviewNewsartreview.com10 July 2020Activists say that blocking ABS-CBN Corp is part of the president’s vendetta against the broadcaster
James Murdoch to invest in struggling Art Basel parent companyArtReviewNewsartreview.com10 July 2020Murdoch’s media fund Lupa Systems will become the anchor shareholder in MCH Group, holding at least a third of shares
Life and Death: the Best Video Art to Watch OnlineJ.J. CharlesworthOpinionartreview.com10 July 2020Neïl Beloufa’s prophetic satire about a hallucination-inducing pandemic (and the elites in charge); Heather Phillipson memorialises our cultural exhaustion; and Rehana Zaman on feminism and solidarity
Work of the Week: Derek Jarman, ‘Imagining October’Oliver BascianoWork of the Weekartreview.com10 July 2020The rarely-seen film, streaming this week, mutes the heroism of revolution through the queered lens
The Plight and Poetry of Singapore’s Migrant WorkersZakir Hossain KhokanFeaturesArtReview Asia10 July 2020‘First Draft’, by Zakir Hossain Khokan
Melania Trump statue set on fire in SloveniaArtReviewNewsartreview.com09 July 2020The artist who commissioned the sculpture wants to interview the perpetrators
LACMA returns Buddhist paintings looted during Korean WarArtReviewNewsartreview.com09 July 2020The ink paintings on silk – narrating the passage of the afterlife – are thought to have been stolen by American soldiers from Buddhist temples
X Marks the Spot: New Exhibitions in SingaporeAdeline ChiaCity Reportsartreview.com08 July 2020Lockdown eases, Singaporeans go to the polls, and galleries reopen with exhibitions covering roots, decolonisation and isolation
What Artists Can Learn from YouTube’s ‘Brain Nursery’Martin HerbertOpinionartreview.com08 July 2020Flicking between the genteel business of contemporary art and algorithmically fragmented YouTube channels
Artworld news roundup 4 – 10 July 2020ArtReviewNewsartreview.com07 July 2020Takashi Murakami’s ‘heartbreak’; France returns skulls to Algeria; Bergen Assembly convener
