Category Archives: Art and Activism
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Embodied Change: South Asian Art Across Time at the Asian Art Museum
Natalia Di Pietranto, the new Assistant Curator of South Asian Art at the Seattle Art Museum explains her first exhibition “Embodied Change, Asian Art Across Time” as follows “I wanted to . . . explore how the body is a site of both personal intimacy and possibility for change. . . I hope that […]
This entry was posted on March 26, 2022 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Feminism, Uncategorized. -
Michelle Kumata
this article originally appeared in a shorter version here http://www.artaccess.com/articles/12634620 Bonfire Gallery “Michelle Kumata: Regeneration” to March 26 We are compelled to enter “Regeneration,” Michelle Kumata’s exhibition at the Bonfire Gallery by the banners in the gallery windows. In the exhibition, Kumata is addressing the difficult subject of the long term […]
This entry was posted on March 8, 2022 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Art in War, Contemporary Asian American Art, Uncategorized. -
Carrie Mae Weems The Shape of Things
Carrie Mae Weems the Shape 0f Things
This entry was posted on January 5, 2022 and is filed under African American history, Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, Uncategorized. -
Ghost of a Dream and Elizabeth ‘Mumbet’ Freeman
Ghost of a Dream and Elizabeth Mumbet Freedom at the new MassArtArt Museum
This entry was posted on November 11, 2021 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Contemporary Art, Feminism, Uncategorized. -
Imna Arroyo: Immersed in Yemaya and Iroko Water and Life
Imna Arroyo’s work, taken as a whole, creates a puzzle of intersecting chronologies, which appear to form the subjective representation of an aesthetic philosophy that reaches toward celestial planes. Humberto Figueroa Iroko, Tree of Life, p. 56 Imna Arroyo bridges art and spirituality in a deeply personal and effective art. She […]
This entry was posted on September 8, 2021 and is filed under Art and Activism, ecology, Feminism, Uncategorized. -
Defusing Radical Alice Neel
Observe these two portraits On the right is the feature image of the Metropolitan Museum of Art current exhibition of the work of Alice Neel “People Come First” It is identified as a portrait of “Elenka”1936, about which there is no information except that she “presumably numbered among the several bohemians with […]
This entry was posted on August 24, 2021 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Contemporary Art, Feminism, Uncategorized. -
Grief and Grievance at the New Museum in New York
Grief and Grievance at the New Museum demonstrates the many ways that artist can address grief while collectively suggesting grievance, the resistance to injustice.
This entry was posted on July 8, 2021 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Contemporary Art, Uncategorized. -
Breathe! at Bainbridge Island Museum of Art and several provocative new shows at the Henry Art Gallery
Provocative artists in several shows at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art and the Henry Art Gallery
This entry was posted on April 14, 2021 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Contemporary Art, ecology, Feminism, Uncategorized. -
Selma Waldman More Important Than Ever in 2021
“Lust for power and territory is the same lust that kills man, women, children and the land itself” Selma Waldman 2002 What would Seattle’s deeply political artist Selma Waldman think of our current catastrophes? On a bitter winter day in January 2008, I accompanied Selma Waldman to the last demonstration that she attended […]
This entry was posted on February 26, 2021 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Contemporary Art, Uncategorized. -
Iran US Collaboration: Emotional Numbness: The Impact of War on the Human Psyche and Ecosystems
“Emotional Numbness, the Impact of War on the Human Psyche and Ecosystems” This exhibition is in Tehran, Iran, but available to see anywhere! It is a collaboration between US based group WEAD, Women Eco Artists Dialog and artists in Tehran, Iran. You can see two excellent online tours of the exhibition here […]
This entry was posted on December 27, 2020 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, Art in War, ecology, Feminism, Uncategorized. -
Marela Zacarias at Mad Art brings us the Temple of the Feathered Serpent in Xochicalco
In case you are yearning for a trip to get away from our crazy election or now to celebrate it, go to Mad Art (325 Westlake Avenue N, open Thurs, Fri, Sat noon to 5 and by appointment necessary) Marela Zacarías brings us the Temple of the Feathered Serpent in Xochicalco, a Mesoamerican […]
This entry was posted on November 6, 2020 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, Contemporary Art, Feminism, Uncategorized. -
Na Chainkua Reindorf
Ghanian artist Na Chainkua Reindorf is showing at the Specialist Gallery (until November 21, by appointment) a series of seven stunning works, with the title “Come, Let Me Spoil Your Things” The artist is inviting us to meet members of an imaginary secret society. This is the first phase of a long term […]
This entry was posted on October 25, 2020 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, Uncategorized, Women Artists. -
South African superstar photographer Zanele Muholi at the Seattle Art Museum
Somnyama Ngonyama: Hail the Dark Lioness South African superstar artist Zanele Muholi bursts out of the Jacob Lawrence and Gwen Knight corner gallery at the Seattle Art Museum: “I’m reclaiming my blackness.” Their exhibition “Somnyama Ngonyama: Hail the Dark Lioness,” spills into four adjoining spaces. First, we see the huge signature self-portrait […]
This entry was posted on September 23, 2019 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Contemporary Art, Feminism, Uncategorized. -
Mary Coss’s “Groundswell” Tells About Salination and Climate Change
During a recent residency, Mary Coss was growing barnacles on Willapa Bay, the second largest estuary in the United States (over 260 square miles!) The artist described the process to me in detail: first she coated a wire mesh with cement snags to attract the barnacles, then dragged it over an […]
This entry was posted on March 23, 2019 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Contemporary Art, Uncategorized. -
Charles White: Humanist
The huge mural by Charles White, “5 great American Negroes” overwhelms us before we even enter the Charles White retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In this first mural Charles White created for the government sponsored WPA mural program, Sojourner Truth leads a march of freed slaves […]
This entry was posted on October 29, 2018 and is filed under African American history, American Art, Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, Uncategorized. -
Carletta Carrington Wilson’s “letter to a laundress”
Carletta Carrington Wilson addresses her “letter to a laundress” to her great great grandmother, but her profound photo/poem installation currently on view at the Kittredge Gallery in Tacoma (only until September 29) honors the work of all those who, in her words, “took in wash.” She found photographs of anonymous […]
This entry was posted on September 7, 2018 and is filed under African American fiction, African American history, American Art, Arican American history, Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Civil War, ecology, Uncategorized. -
Migration Then and Now: A European and UK Perspective
Migration from a European perspective including the Migration Museum, London, Arabella Dorman’s installation and Ai Wei Wei’s film human flow
This entry was posted on January 16, 2018 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, Migration, Uncategorized. -
Anniversary of Russian Revolution Part III: Pussy Riot
Pussy Riot protest conditions of oppression in Russia and elsewhere.
This entry was posted on December 15, 2017 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, Feminism, Russian Performance Art, Uncategorized. -
Art and Bombs
August 6 a day to commemorate the most horrifying act of all time, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I am giving you the work of several artists who address these acts from contrasting perspectives as a response to the horrifying comments coming from the President and perhaps for more work to be created on this subject.
This entry was posted on August 10, 2017 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Indigenous Art, Gail Tremblay, Uncategorized. -
Zhi LIN: In Search of the Lost History of Chinese Migrants and the Transcontinental Railroads
“Zhi LIN In Search of the Lost History of Chinese Migrants and the Transcontinental Railroads” at the Tacoma Art Museum is a tour de force of research, aesthetics, history, tragedy, and beauty.
This entry was posted on July 7, 2017 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Uncategorized, Western History. -
Kerry James Marshall Maestro and Shaman
Kerry James Marshall Retrospective glories in the humanity and history of African Americans, and confronts the prejudices of the white eye, the white museum, the white art history
This entry was posted on March 1, 2017 and is filed under African American history, American Art, Art and Activism, art criticism, Art of Democracy, Black Art, Black Panthers, Ethnicity, Uncategorized. -
Benny Andrews: The Bicentennial Series predicts America Today *
Benny Andrews Bicentennial Series created in the early 1970s predicts the disfunction of our nation today.
This entry was posted on February 24, 2017 and is filed under African American fiction, Arican American history, Art and Activism, Art of Democracy, Black Art, Black HIstory Month, Contemporary Art, Uncategorized. -
The Artnauts: A Global Collective of Artists for Peace
The Artnauts, an art collective, travel to places of conflict and collaborate with artists in places such as Palestine, Guatemala, Bosnia, the Amazon, even China.
This entry was posted on December 3, 2016 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Uncategorized. -
Constellations (Asterismos) on Amorgos in the Cyclades
Constellations, (Asterismos) a multimedia arts festival on the remote Cycladic Island of Amorgos is run entirely by volunteers with creative performers donating their time. Now in its fourth year, it gets better every year.
This entry was posted on July 31, 2016 and is filed under Amorgos Greece, Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Uncategorized. -
Break Free From Fossil Fuels Pacific Northwest Anacortes
Break Free From Fossil Fuels Pacific Northwest a coming together of more than a thousand people, on land and sea, to insist on working together to end the plundering the earth.
This entry was posted on May 18, 2016 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, Backbone Campaign, Contemporary Art, ecology, global justice, indians, Indigenous activism, Uncategorized.
