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"The Revolution Started Here and It Never Left" guerilla light installation by the Boston art collective, Silence Dogood. Image: Mike Ritter, via Yello by Hunter Schwarz.

What is Arts Activism?

“The Revolution Started Here and It Never Left” guerilla light installation by the Boston art collective, Silence[…]

David Hammons "In the Hood" (1993) , cover art for Claudia Rankine’s book "Citizen: An American Lyric" (2014)

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[…]

Juneteeth

Juneteenth

Celebrate Juneteenth with the Arts On January 1, 1863 (known as “Freedom’s Eve”) enslaved and free African[…]

Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942. Oil on canvas. Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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[…]

Where is today’s resistance music?

Where is resistance music today?

Music once had the power to unify across racial and political divides In the 20th century, protest[…]

Maurizio Cattelan, "Comedian" (2019)

Irony, parody, satire … or ridicule?

When it comes to creative resistance, offer insights. Otherwise, it is just mockery. What makes irony, parody,[…]

Guerilla Girls is a collective of anonymous female artists who have used malicious compliance and resistance to challenge sexism and inequality in the art world. One of their most famous works, "Do Women Have to Be Naked to Get into the Met Museum?" (1989), followed advertising conventions but subverted them by exposing gender disparities in museum collections.

Resistance. Malicious compliance. Dissidence.

Art endures because courage endures Some believe the arts have the power to affect change. Others see[…]

The Empath Strikes Back

The Empath Strikes Back

Wherever you are. Whatever your creative expression. Tomorrow, Saturday, April 19, 2025, fire your shot for our[…]

Send in the clowns

Send in the clowns

The circus is already in town. Why not join it on purpose? Create to Liberate Idea No.[…]

"America" by Touba Alipour

66 ways to creatively resist

Now is the time to create boldly and act with purpose Yesterday’s locations and turnout for HandsOff![…]

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