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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
Benny Andrews Bicentennial Series created in the early 1970s predicts the disfunction of our nation today.
DACA Delayed Action for Childhood Arrivals a program that provides temporary status to young people brought here as children may be cancelled any day. Maria De Los Angeles, a DACA who is not afraid to speak out, addresses the tensions and anxieties of immigrant families in her drawings and performances.
Sarah Sze’s pavilion in Venice is a perfect metaphor of the disintegration of the US sense of itself.
Obsessions produces hundreds of art works at the Venice Biennale
Buster Simpson’s retrospective at the Frye Art Museum in context,: conceptual art, meets Marcel Duchamp
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.
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.
Experimentation with classical media in music, theater and writing can be as subversive and confrontational as street protests.
Fremont Solstice Parade, We the People festival and Occupy Living Rooms, a play, all express collaborative creativity that resists categories of art and politics.
There is so much to write about The Art of Democracy project. In this photo I am talking to Art Hazelwood in the Meridian Gallery in San Francisco. Hazelwood and Steve Fredericks of New York Society of Etchers are the two main organizers of the nation wide project. It includes exhibitions in states across the […]
Pornography of Power: The Anti War Art of Selma Waldman is part of a network of exhibitions taking place all over the country under the auspices of Art of Democracy. I will write about them next. Selma Waldman’s exhibition, the first since her death in April, is at Seattle Central Community College. It includes an […]
I just found a new book by Boris Groys. His arguments are strangely out of date, although this is a new book from 2008. “If we want to speak about the ability of art to resist external pressure, the question must first be asked Does art have its own territory that is worthy of defending?The […]