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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[…]

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[…]

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