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 ...

Art and politics have always been inseparable. Long before social media algorithms and 24-hour news cycles, people used images, songs, murals, and performances to say what speeches alone could not.

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 ...

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 ...

When Joan Baez sang “We Shall Overcome” at the 1963 March on Washington alongside a quarter of a million peaceful protestors, the world stood still for a moment in the face of America’s racial ...

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 ...

Are you ready to deepen your understanding of U.S. politics and explore the intersection of art and civic engagement? Join us for an enlightening event designed to demystify the political process and ...

Some years ago, I was obsessed with Thomas Crow’s impressive first book, Painters in Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris (1987). I even read the PhD thesis which is its source. Because I was ...

In 2017, it seems that everything is political. Something as simple as where you buy your coffee has become a political statement. But this should not be surprising to us. Everything is political. The ...

During the final days of this tense election, we take a look at a project fostering a different type of civic space to encourage young people to discuss issues, engage each other and vote. Jeffrey ...