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 ...

A new cultural fight is unfolding in public view, and it’s no longer just about performances or programming. It’s about ...

Georgetown is a center of dialogue about art and politics, integrating both of these disciplines through its diverse coursework. The department of art and art history gives students the opportunity to ...

Howardena Pindell had already created the spiraling mess of oranges, yellows, blues, and greens, footprinted with red arrows indicating the path of the swirls, when she realized that the lithograph ...

In the wake of the overthrow of Charles X, Eugène Delacroix gave life to his now-famous painting, “Liberty Leading the People,” to celebrate what he hoped was a new era of French freedom. A decade ...

Detail image. Della Wells and Anne-Marie Grgich with Sandy Jo Combes, Remember Sister, We Sisters Are Married to Truth and Freedom, Not Married to Fear and Lies, 2025. Photo by Souleo. As President ...

In Acts of Resistance (Norton, Nov.), theater producer Amber Massie-Blomfield argues that art is a powerful political force. How did you begin thinking about political art? In 2018, I was running an ...

Just a little over fifty years ago, I wanted to read the most challenging new art history writing. And so I purchased T. J. Clark’s first two books: The Absolute Bourgeois: Artists and Politics in ...

The Vera List Center is pleased to announce the inaugural Vera List Center Forum, an international, annual convening of key participants in the field of art and politics. If Art is Politics begins to ...

Leon Zeman's undated "Third Ave. Bridge" is part of the upcoming "Inspired by Cedar Rapids: 175 Years of Art" exhibition at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. A collection of works celebrating the city's ...

PHILADELPHIA — It should come as no surprise that there are many ways one can experience art. During this week’s Democratic National Convention, the opportunities run the gamut, from the pristine ...