419051 IOC XX X 10.1177/0306422011419051 JO GLANVILLE Editorial

ANISH KAPOOR A singular voice

Art, solidarity and political pressure

SIMON KIRBY China’s new deal

Ai Weiwei’s arrest has marked a sea change

MALU HALASA Picture this

‘Lollipope’ by Parastou Forouhar

PHILIP KENNICOTT Culture wars

Censorship in the US has set back the debate

JOHN FROHNMAYER Art lessons

Reflections on a funding fallout

MATTHEW BOWN Relics of freedom

How the art market pits free expression against religion

EUGENIO MERINO Picture this

‘Piss Christ’ by Andres Serrano

YASMINE EL RASHIDI Art or vandalism?

Street art is now a symbol of freedom in Cairo

NICK STURDEE Russia’s Robin Hood

Performance art that cocks a snook to the establishment

TIMELINE Indecent exposure: images that shocked the establishment

LANGLANDS & BELL Picture this

‘The House of Osama bin Laden’

SHAHEEN MERALI Spaces of freedom

Rozita Sharafjahan: a pioneer on Iran’s art scene

MARTIN ROWSON Stripsearch

JUDE KELLY Fool for art

In defence of the right to artistic expression

KAYA GENÇ Sketches of dissent

Challenging the status quo in Turkey

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