David Harrison s Trans Goat: Dance of the Universe (2020)
1 May or Mayday is a big event in the pagan calendar. For the Celts it marked the major festival of Beltranem, when spring turns into summer, sap starts to rise and thoughts turn to fecundity. Hence the erection of maypoles and all other manner of other ribald ritualistic shenanigans.
So strongly ingrained is this ancient pre-Christian festival across the western world that Mayday, with all its radical and nonconformist connotations, was adopted by the early socialist movement, with the first international Mayday proclaimed by the second Socialist International in 1889. Miraculously, given our evermore right-wing government, Mayday continues to be a national holiday in the UK and this year the May Bank holiday weekend had an especially liberated feel as it coincided with a loosening up of England s lockdown.
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It’s the final episode of 2020 and so, as we always do as the year comes to an end, we’re reviewing the last 12 months in the art world. And what a year it’s been. Host Ben Luke is joined by three of
The Art Newspaper’s correspondents who have been on the frontline reporting the huge events of the year and their effects on the art world. Anna Brady is our art market editor, Louisa Buck is our contemporary art correspondent, and Gareth Harris is our chief contributing editor. Inevitably, as we tackled the year’s events, two major global events dominated the discussions: the coronavirus pandemic and the death of George Floyd, Black Lives Matter and the fight for racial justice.