After a year of loss, Staci Bu Shea refects on the meaning of grief. 'Grief is here, irresolvable and unwavering, and that does not change.' We must learn how to live with it. Art and literature can help. They are full of life while also carrying death, at the same time, in the same moment.

Metropolis M, in collaboration with the Stedelijk Museum, is holding a livestream event on the eve of the Dutch parliamentary elections. Joram Kraaijeveld, research editor at Metropolis M, will talk to artists about their distinctive practices and the ways they strive to achieve democratic renewal through artistic and political action, both inside and outside government.

Women claiming their place in art history - Lisa Brice's work shows women at work, painting women, many of them in cobalt blues and deep bright reds. Her work is full of quotes from art history questioning the way white men used to claim this figurative tradition.