The Many Faces of Arts Activism: Part 1
Hassan Fathy’s New Gourna Village (Luxor, Egypt, 1940s–50s) arose from anger at Egypt’s rural housing crisis. Using local materials[…]
The Many Faces of Arts Activism: Intro
Detail from Mikalojus Povilas Vilutis’ Aggression II (1979), silkscreen on paper, from the collection of MO Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania. View[…]
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[…]
United by Creativity
Centro de Teatro do Oprimido (CTO) in Rio de Janeiro shows how performance can engage communities and[…]
How Creativity Strengthens Movements
The Herds transforms sidewalks and plazas with puppetry, movement and ritual, inviting participants to reimagine land, ecology[…]
Who Is Making Irresistible Resistance Music?
On July 18, 2025, nine-time Grammy Award winner Sheryl Crow released the single, “The New Normal.” Crow[…]
Legal Literacy as Artistic Resistance
The Guerrilla Girls use masked anonymity, bold visuals and biting statistics to expose gender and racial bias[…]
Smuggled Truths
Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) are small brass plaques embedded in walkways across Europe, each commemorating a victim of Nazi[…]
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[…]
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