PRESS: Financial Times – Why more artists face jail around the world

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PRESS TEXT: Why more artists face jail around the world

Source: FT.com

By Rachel Spence

‘Increased politicisation is only part of the story. Ivor Stodolsky, who set up AR along with fellow curator Marita Muukkonen in 2013 to provide residencies for visual artists at risk of persecution in their homelands, suggests that the new threat to artists stems ultimately from the growing power of the media in which they work. “The 21st century is a visual culture,” he says. “It’s beginning to be our dominant form.”’

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