The moment before going public, where artistic courage begins with private calculation. The Arts, Courage, and Consequence[…]

The cost of dissent. Photograph by John Filo, Kent State University, May 4, 1970. Pulitzer Prize-winning image depicting[…]

Shown above, detail from Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks, 1942. Oil on canvas. Collection of the Art Institute of[…]

“The Death of Marat,” painted by Jacques-Louis David in 1793, is an example of how art can[…]