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A wave of figurative paintings, by black painters and focused on black subjects, has spawned a ubiquitous new style – but has market pressure pushed artists’ radical intentions into something more palliative?
The best storyteller has the power, according to British filmmaker Adam Curtis. In his new BBC documentary Bitter Lake (2015) he montages archival material from seven decades of failed Afghan politics and explains why the West has lost faith in its own narratives.
Dean Kissick discusses the shifting value of the term “artist” in our current state of global affairs and the complicity between Comedien Nathan Fielder and political figures from Donald Trump to Vladimir Putin.
![Video still from Coca-Cola's 1971 commercial "I want to teach the world to sing"](https://www.spikeartmagazine.com/sites/default/files/styles/medium_square_400/public/users/shared/articles/images/maxresdefault.jpg?itok=EZ8POkki "Video still from Coca-Cola's 1971 commercial "I want to teach the world to sing"")
