Category Archives: Art and Activism
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Sarah Sze “Triple Point” The US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
Sarah Sze’s pavilion in Venice is a perfect metaphor of the disintegration of the US sense of itself.
This entry was posted on November 18, 2013 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Art of Democracy, Conceptual Art, Contemporary Art, Uncategorized, Venice, Venice Biennale. -
Obsessions in Venice
Obsessions produces hundreds of art works at the Venice Biennale
This entry was posted on November 2, 2013 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Art of Democracy, Contemporary Art, Uncategorized, Venice, Venice Biennale. -
Buster Simpson// Surveyor
Buster Simpson’s retrospective at the Frye Art Museum in context,: conceptual art, meets Marcel Duchamp
This entry was posted on August 21, 2013 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Art of Democracy, ecology, Uncategorized. -
Part I Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands) Tradition Resurrected
Part I of Haida Gwai touches on the amazing culture of the Haida and its recent revival.
This entry was posted on August 13, 2013 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, Uncategorized. -
Art and Politics at the Seattle International Film Festival
Compelling films from Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East as well as two form the US shed light on international politics in intimate ways as a counter to news cliches.
This entry was posted on July 10, 2013 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Art in Beirut, Art in War, Art of Democracy, Film, Uncategorized. -
Art about Detention and Immigration as a terrible new law makes its way through Congress
Detention is already out of control in this country. The current immigration bill will make it much worse.
This entry was posted on June 20, 2013 and is filed under Art and Activism. -
Out [o] Fashion at the Henry Art Gallery
Deborah Willis “Out O Fashion Photography: Embracing Beauty” at the Henry Art Gallery changes the way we see photographs and shakes up our preconceived ideas.
This entry was posted on April 6, 2013 and is filed under Arican American history, Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism. -
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. -
“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. -
My imaginary interview with Amy Goodman on Culture and Resistance
Democracy Now in honor of the New Year had a program called “Culture of Resistance”, but it omitted visual artists and many voices. I wrote an imaginary interview with Amy Goodman to fill the gap.
This entry was posted on January 1, 2013 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Art in War, Art of Democracy. -
“Elles” and Beyond: Women Artists Take on the World
Art by Women everywhere in Seattle provokes us to think about what they are saying about themselves and the world.
This entry was posted on November 25, 2012 and is filed under Art and Activism, art criticism, Contemporary Art, Feminism, Iranian Women, Israel Palestine, Sandra Jackson-Dumont, Seattle Art, Seattle Art Museum, Shirin Neshat, Uncategorized. -
“Living as Form” and the Hemispheric Institute: Two approaches to art and politics
Creative Time Summits (here is the schedule of the upcoming Summit) are a primary place for the discussion of socially engaged artistic practices. Laurie Jo Reynolds (above) is one artist who has been featured several times for her important work, moving from an artist working with prisoners at Tamms Supermax Prison, to a political activist […]
This entry was posted on September 15, 2012 and is filed under #Occupy movement, Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now. -
The Inheritors: An Exhibition by Jo Hockenhull
We are embedded in the natural world inside and out, organs and bones; we are in and of the bird world, the animal world, the world of insects; some of those creatures are going to survive the human species, in the end because of our obliviousness to our place in the world. […]
This entry was posted on September 10, 2012 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, Uncategorized. -
The Pinter Festival at ACT
This is just a quick acknowledgement of a brilliant playwright and a thank you to the ACT theater for staging a Pinter Festival this summer. Harold Pinter stylistically can be placed between Samuel Beckett and Tom Stoppard in the British Theater. He lived from 1930 – 2008 and received the Nobel Prize for Literature […]
This entry was posted on August 27, 2012 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, Uncategorized. -
A few thoughts on Fremont Solstice, We the People and Occupy Living Rooms
Fremont Solstice Parade, We the People festival and Occupy Living Rooms, a play, all express collaborative creativity that resists categories of art and politics.
This entry was posted on July 14, 2012 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art of Democracy, democracy. -
Remember Me: Voices of the Silenced in Colombia: Art Exhibition
This exhibition is created by people who are on the front lines of violence in Colombia. The exhibition is being circulated by Witness for Peace Northwest in collaboration with Lutheran World Relief. “The artists are families and friends of those who lost their lives in the violence. Despite the fact that much of the violence […]
This entry was posted on July 25, 2011 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, Colombia Drug violence, economic imperialism vs democracy. -
Art and Activism
This last weekend I went to two amazing fundraisers that both featured art and activism. The first was a collaboration between Chaya, an organization that helps domestic violence victims from South Asia that live in the Seattle area. and Tasveer, a non profit that sponsors South Asian independent film festivals . They presented films, dance, […]
