Posts in Social Change

Theaster Gates, Black Vessel for a Saint (2017)

The Many Faces of Arts Activism: Part 3

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

Hassan Fathy’s New Gourna Village (Luxor, Egypt, 1940s–50s)

The Many Faces of Arts Activism: Part 1

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

Fondation Louis Vuitton, Avenue du Mahatma Gandhi, Paris, France, Photo by DUET.PHOTO on Unsplash

Individual Creativity Against Authoritarianism

Exhibition at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France, Photo by DUET.PHOTO on Unsplash. Turning imagination into resistance You’ve[…]

Centro de Teatro do Oprimido

United by Creativity

Centro de Teatro do Oprimido (CTO) in Rio de Janeiro shows how performance can engage communities and[…]

Vivien Leigh as Blanch DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire," Warner Bros. Pictures (1951)

Denial doesn’t save us

How do artists craft magic that doesn’t erase reality, but illuminates it? In “A Streetcar Named Desire,”[…]