JJ Charlesworth

writing on art, culture, politics

Politics

  • New statue proves Banksy has lost his anti-establishment streak

    New statue proves Banksy has lost his anti-establishment streak

    First published on Unherd, 2 May 2026 Britain’s most boring street-art propagandist has struck again. Banksy’s latest instalment statement — a besuited man with a flag obscuring his face, mounted on a 12-foot plinth in the heart of Westminster — appeared in the early hours of Wednesday morning. It arrived, as these things often do,…

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  • People Make Television

    People Make Television

    My review of a brilliant show revisiting public access broadcasting in the 1970s, at Raven Row, London, for ArtReview Exhibiting an archive is always a potentially radical act. The past either disappears, or ends up in some unlighted store, waiting for someone to come looking for it, to find its usefulness in the present. Then,…

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