February – 2013 – ART and POLITICS NOW - Susan Noyes Platt, PhD

ART and POLITICS NOW – Susan Noyes Platt, PhD

Contemporary Art and Archeology in the Middle East: Crying Caryatids, Flooded Histories, Graffiti, and Puppet Shows

From flooded sites in Turkey to cartoons in Syria, a look at someaspects of culture in the midst of the political and economic earthquakes in Turkey, Libya, Egypt and Syria.

This entry was posted on February 23, 2013 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art in War, Contemporary Art.

Tags: Ali Ferzhat, art of the uprisings in Libya, Benjamin Anderson, Christiane Gruber, contemporary Middle East, dissident culture in Syria, Egyptian graffiti, Gaddafi as "King of Kings", Ganzeer, Hazankeyf, Jennifer Pruitt, Laurent Dissard, Middle East graffiti, miriam cooke, Qays al-Hilali
“Idle No More” and other Protests

Protests of Keystone XL, coal trains, fracking, and the biggest oil presence in our lives explained at the Burke Museum in “Plastics Unwrapped”

This entry was posted on February 19, 2013 and is filed under a green future?, Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, Feminism.

Tags: "Democracy Now!", Backbone Campaign, Coal Train protests, Harpers Magazine, Idle No More, Keystone XL Protests, One Billion Rising, We will not be Silent