Posts about Protest Art

Samizdat typewriter

Artists Need Cybersecurity

In the Soviet Union, writers and dissidents relied on “samizdat,” hand-typed manuscripts secretly circulated to avoid censorship.[…]

The Herds. Photo by Vegard Aasen.

How Creativity Strengthens Movements

The Herds transforms sidewalks and plazas with puppetry, movement and ritual, inviting participants to reimagine land, ecology[…]

Stolpersteine

Smuggled Truths

Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) are small brass plaques embedded in walkways across Europe, each commemorating a victim of Nazi[…]

Doris Salcedo's "Shibboleth"

Hiding the Truth to Keep It Alive

Columbian artist Doris Salcedo’s “Shibboleth” (2007) is a long, deep fissure carved into the floor of London’s Tate Modern[…]

"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[…]

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,[…]

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![…]