Daniel Trilling is the editor of ‘New Humanist’. His book, ‘Lights in the Distance: Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe’ is published by Picador in the UK and Verso in the US.

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How political is political art?

Many artists take themes such as migration, climate change, and human rights as their subjects, but what are they actually doing with them?

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What national museums tell us about national identities

Museums of national history put the stories countries like to tell about themselves into physical form

26 Feb 2018

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