Art and politics have always been inseparable. Long before social media algorithms and 24-hour news cycles, people used images, songs, murals, and performances to say what speeches alone could not.

Just a little over fifty years ago, I wanted to read the most challenging new art history writing. And so I purchased T. J. Clark’s first two books: The Absolute Bourgeois: Artists and Politics in ...

When Joan Baez sang “We Shall Overcome” at the 1963 March on Washington alongside a quarter of a million peaceful protestors, the world stood still for a moment in the face of America’s racial ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new documentary about Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Pat Oliphant highlights his willingness to take on any person ...

Detail image. Della Wells and Anne-Marie Grgich with Sandy Jo Combes, Remember Sister, We Sisters Are Married to Truth and Freedom, Not Married to Fear and Lies, 2025. Photo by Souleo. As President ...

Hyperallergic speaks to artist and academic Işıl Eğrikavuk about whether art can help keep the spirit of protests alive. People gather and spray-paint slogans during the Gezi Park protests in 2013.

With a record number of countries holding elections in 2024—including the U.S., where Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are battling it out for the White House this week—the future of democracy feels ...

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Some years ago, I was obsessed with Thomas Crow’s impressive first book, Painters in Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris (1987). I even read the PhD thesis which is its source. Because I was ...

On "The Painted Protest" and the likely end of the "radlib" era of culture. Kiyan Williams, Ruins of Empire II or The Earth Swallows the Master's House (2024) in the 2024 Whitney Biennial. Photo by ...