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Comment | Despite what some critics claim, art today isn’t really too obsessed with ‘social justice’

In viral essays and beyond, those who bemoan the dominance of identity politics in museums often reveal more of their own biases than of the art world's

Ben Luke
7 January 2025
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Tate bashing: criticisms by J.J. Charlesworth in The Spectator magazine include suggestions that in Tate Britain’s 2023 rehang “mediocre paintings” were “wheeled out to make a point about the position of Black people in Georgian and Victorian Britain”
Photo © Tate/Seraphina Neville