Power to… the art of protest

Politically engaged art is thriving again, finding new ways to challenge in a complex digital world. We look at the rich history of protest art and, on the eve of a new group show, talk to radical artists about their workIn repressive states, the role of the artist is unambiguous: to assert the individual imagination, the singular power that all dictatorships fear. I remember once talking to the Czech dissident and writer Ivan Klima, who had been subject both to the arbitrary horror of a Nazi co