Before You Speak Out: A Creator’s Risk Framework
Dread Scott, What is the Proper Way to Display a US Flag?, 1989. Detail from installation. Viewers[…]
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[…]
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[…]
Denial doesn’t save us
How do artists craft magic that doesn’t erase reality, but illuminates it? In “A Streetcar Named Desire,”[…]
Resist or rebel?
At this point in history, does art activism need to be less about resistance and more about[…]
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