Meet the Troubadours for Social Change When the world feels unsteady, music becomes a megaphone. Rising artists[…]

Dancers from Tanztheater Wuppertal performing Pina Bausch’s “Nelken Line” from Wim Wenders’ documentary Pina. (2011) The arts, like[…]

Detail from John Singer Sargent’s 1889 portrait of Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth. (Public domain / Wikimedia Commons)[…]

The cost of dissent. Photograph by John Filo, Kent State University, May 4, 1970. Pulitzer Prize-winning image depicting[…]

Artists from the Global South converge in Salvador, Brazil, for three days of art, music, workshops, and[…]

In the Soviet Union, writers and dissidents relied on “samizdat,” hand-typed manuscripts secretly circulated to avoid censorship.[…]

Theaster Gates, Black Vessel for a Saint (2017), Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, Walker Art Center. Built from reclaimed black bricks,[…]

Using 150 tons of rebar salvaged from collapsed schools in the Sichuan earthquake, Ai Weiwei’s installation Straight[…]

Sex Squad, a UCLA Art & Global Health Center program, blends performance, community engagement and arts activism[…]

Hassan Fathy’s New Gourna Village (Luxor, Egypt, 1940s–50s) arose from anger at Egypt’s rural housing crisis. Using local materials[…]