Why pop art was not just a western movement
It is widely regarded as the most significant art movement of the last century. Pop art uses well-known imagery from everyday life and the mass media to reflect on the world. Now a new exhibition in London brings together 250 works by 110 artists from the US to China and the former Soviet bloc, showing that it was not simply a western movement. Post Pop: East Meets West runs at the Saatchi Gallery in London until February 23. For more information visit www.saatchigallery.com.
Explore the sound of Emirati artist's paper works
In his first solo exhibition following his participation in the 55th Venice Biennale, Mohammed Kazem examines themes of subjectivity and experience. At the heart of the exhibition in Dubai are 24 works on paper that render Indonesian masks, hard-carved bowls and African figurines as a series of bumps and reliefs scratched into paper. Sound of Objects runs at the
Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde until January 4. For more information visit www.ivde.net.
Fantastic realism in the style of the Old Masters
Arik Brauer is one of the main players of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism, which after the Second World War defined post-war modernism. With his bizarre and fantastical shapes in the style of the Old Masters, Brauer's work captures the imagination. This exhibition in Austria brings together 100 paintings, graphic works and sculptures and marks the artist's 85th birthday, which falls in January. Arik Brauer runs at the Leopold Museum until February 15. For more information visit www.leopoldmuseum.org.
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Conflict, drought, famine
Estimates of the number of deaths caused by the famine range from 400,000 to 1 million, according to a document prepared for the UK House of Lords in 2024.
It has been claimed that the policies of the Ethiopian government, which took control after deposing Emperor Haile Selassie in a military-led revolution in 1974, contributed to the scale of the famine.
Dr Miriam Bradley, senior lecturer in humanitarian studies at the University of Manchester, has argued that, by the early 1980s, “several government policies combined to cause, rather than prevent, a famine which lasted from 1983 to 1985. Mengistu’s government imposed Stalinist-model agricultural policies involving forced collectivisation and villagisation [relocation of communities into planned villages].
The West became aware of the catastrophe through a series of BBC News reports by journalist Michael Buerk in October 1984 describing a “biblical famine” and containing graphic images of thousands of people, including children, facing starvation.
Band Aid
Bob Geldof, singer with the Irish rock group The Boomtown Rats, formed Band Aid in response to the horrific images shown in the news broadcasts.
With Midge Ure of the band Ultravox, he wrote the hit charity single Do They Know it’s Christmas in December 1984, featuring a string of high-profile musicians.
Following the single’s success, the idea to stage a rock concert evolved.
Live Aid was a series of simultaneous concerts that took place at Wembley Stadium in London, John F Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, the US, and at various other venues across the world.
The combined event was broadcast to an estimated worldwide audience of 1.5 billion.
