Posts about Performance Art

Ai Weiwei’s installation Straight (2008–2012)

Arts Activism Thrives on Solidarity

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

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[…]

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,”[…]

6 Who Dare

Meet 6 members from our artist community

There are high-profile artists who mobilize their creative gifts for democracy and social justice. Artists like the[…]