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What is Arts Activism?
“The Revolution Started Here and It Never Left” guerilla light installation by the Boston art collective, Silence[…]
In a Divided World, the Arts Offer Choices
David Hammons’ “In the Hood” (1993) provided the cover art for Claudia Rankine’s 2014 book: “Citizen: An[…]
When Those in Power Lie, the Arts Help Us See
The mill owners called it “helping out.” Lewis Hine’s lens called it what it was: child labor.[…]
Can the Arts Offer a Kinder Way to Belong?
Centuries ago, Japanese artisans began mending broken vessels with lacquer and gold. This tradition – called kintsugi (“golden seams”)[…]
When the Arts are the Enemy
UK artist Sir Grayson Perry with his custom Harley—a meditation on masculinity and vulnerability embodied in one person. Reframing[…]
Erasing the Mirror
Hitler visiting the “Entartete Kunst “(Degenerate Art) exhibition in Munich, 1937. Wiener Library Collections. Source: jewishnews.timesofisrael.com via[…]
Juneteenth
Celebrate Juneteenth with the Arts On January 1, 1863 (known as “Freedom’s Eve”) enslaved and free African[…]
Belonging and Exclusion
Dogville (2003), a film directed and written by Lars von Trier, features Nicole Kidman as Grace Mulligan and[…]
LGBTQ+ Artists Reimagine Advocacy
Shown: British painter Gluck in a collage graphic created by BBC. Art Activism is Nothing New Explore[…]
Art, Identity, and the Search for Belonging
Shown above, detail from Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks, 1942. Oil on canvas. Collection of the Art Institute of[…]
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