China’s Poets
Xu Wei’s ink wash painting from the Ming Dynasty, featuring a poem in Chinese at the top[…]
Artists Need Cybersecurity
In the Soviet Union, writers and dissidents relied on “samizdat,” hand-typed manuscripts secretly circulated to avoid censorship.[…]
Individual Creativity Against Authoritarianism
Exhibition at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France, Photo by DUET.PHOTO on Unsplash. Turning imagination into resistance You’ve[…]
USA Artists: We Are On Our Own
Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother (1936) portrays Florence Owens Thompson during the Great Depression, symbolizing both individual struggle and society’s[…]
How Creativity Strengthens Movements
The Herds transforms sidewalks and plazas with puppetry, movement and ritual, inviting participants to reimagine land, ecology[…]
An Artist “Dodging Politics is Like Dodging Raindrops”
In director Frank Darabont’s 1994 film, “The Shawshank Redemption,” Andy Dufresne escapes prison through a sewage pipe[…]
When Artists Stay Silent, Power Speaks Louder
Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” serves as an allegory for McCarthyism, spotlighting the courage of individuals who confront corrupt power.[…]
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