Having to. And I don’t know what’s on the other side of that.” Lindsay is no stranger to explicitly political art. In 2017, the Imaginists presented Stop That Show!, a bicycle-powered, bilingual ...

A good friend made politically charged posters using AI and wants me to spread them on my social media. She works for herself ...

When artists turn to activism or introduce politics into a work of art, it’s usually taken as something virtuous, an act of conscience on behalf of justice. But artistic and political values are ...

Political art is usually terrible, or good for bad reasons. The Death of Marat, Jacques-Louis David’s 1793 painting of the French revolutionary murdered in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday, may be a ...

Art and politics may seem like mortal enemies, but they’re more like best frenemies forever. In this episode of Crash Course Political Theory, we take a trip back in time to see how artists have ...

And though there is some truth to that, art by nature is political, because we are political beings, breathing out our ideas and experiences of the world onto others. The moment we take our ...

Art holds a storied place in the long history of political and social resistance. Enslaved and formerly enslaved Africans were denied education in America and thus unable to communicate through ...

“The crux, or the heart of my practice, is taking on political histories and especially thinking about contested histories,” Singh said. Singh said the flexible and subjective nature of art — whether ...

If the American electorate is not careful, a new form of political art may trump election integrity and workers’ rights None of it was real. Swift has not endorsed any candidate in the 2024 ...

he asked. Perhaps needless to say, even those of us who found the previous four years of explicitly political art exhausting, tedious, and creatively stifling understood that this question was not ...

Two political statues have mysteriously popped ... and some people thought it was inappropriate.” But Muller sees the art as “great reminder of what’s at stake,” saying: “We have to ...