Alastair Smart
Alastair Smart is an art critic at the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph.
‘The Plaza de Bolívar has become a canvas and protesters the artists’
The Plaza de Bolívar in Bogotá is the beating heart of Colombia, a place where protesters and artists (including Doris Salcedo) routinely gather
27 Feb 2017
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Keeping time – the Tunisian clock monuments that tell of a bygone regime
A decade after the uprisings that led to the downfall of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, the clocks he loved remain
The medieval Armenian monuments in Nagorno-Karabakh must be protected
The region is full of important sites that have not yet been fully recorded or studied
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Podcast
The Apollo 40 under 40 podcast: Mohamad Hafez
The Syrian-born, US-based artist talks to Gabrielle Schwarz about his sculptural dioramas of cities ravaged by war – and offers a message of hope for the future
A Diego Rivera mural is the San Francisco Art Institute’s prize asset – but that doesn’t mean it should be sold