See how artists have shaped politics and politicians have failed to stop them. Art and politics may seem like mortal enemies, but they’re more like best frenemies forever. In this episode of Crash ...

Despite a surge in art-as-resistance eight years ago — hailed as crucial in the fight to defeat Trump once and for all — America is back where it started in 2016, give or take a few racist marches, ...

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 ...

Installation view, Edward Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholz, “The Ozymandias Parade” (1985). Mixed media tableau, 12′ 8″ x 29′ 1″ x 15′. (all images ...

Meaning, does it change minds? And if not, does it at least embolden the true believers? Those questions passed through my mind recently at three excellent art shows now staged at two Austin museums. ...

From the Black Panthers and LGBTQ+ movement, to the Summer of Love and punk music, counterculture has long defined the Bay Area — and posters, buttons, zines and newspapers have always been a means ...

Art stencils employed in political activism have been used worldwide since the 1920s. One artist ups the game by allowing citizens to co-create stencils of Kamala Harris. A wall of political art ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Grab your bullhorn and get ready to march: With apologies to Gil Scott Heron, the revolution isn’t being televised at the Cleveland Institute of Art; it’s rolling off a printing ...

Artists at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts. From left to right: Calixto Robles, Sarai Montes, and Alejandra Rubio. The decades-old tradition of radical printmaking at the Mission Cultural ...

If the American electorate is not careful, a new form of political art may trump election integrity and workers’ rights None of it was real. Swift has not endorsed any candidate in the 2024 election.

The messaging meets you where you’re at. If you’re a millennial or zoomer, you’ve almost certainly seen the tweets, the IGs, the dating app messages and the social media posts encouraging, demanding ...

‘Out of Place: Art For the Evicted’ (1984), an outdoor exhibition organized by PAD/D’s ‘Not For Sale’ committee at various locations in the Lower East Side. The facades of abandoned buildings were ...