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What Democracy Looks Like: A Documentary on Political Life Now
Astra Taylor set out in 2013 to unsettle and challenge our notions of democracy as it is currently conceived. Unfortunately, the state of the world may have beaten her to it.
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‘We Are MoMA!’: Union Demonstrates as Negotiations With Museum Continue
Workers have been without a new contract since May 20, and points of contention include health care costs and job security.
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Issues and Commentary: Here to Stay
Here to Stay and the protests against Fast's show continue a lively lineage of Chinatown-based artistic activism.
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Striking Nerves: Art and Protest in 2017
The most powerful protests are not always the voices shouting the loudest. Often they are the most nuanced and multivalent, holding open the space we need to endure and push back on homogenizing…
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We Exist: Victoria Lomasko’s Graphic Journalism
Over the past eight years, Russian artist Victoria Lomasko has captured, in sketches and portraits, the people and movements at the periphery of her country's political life.
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MoMA Staff Protests at the Museum’s ‘Party In the Garden’ Gala
At last night's annual Party in the Garden gala at the Museum of Modern Art—a major fundraising event for the institution, which this year was in honor of artists Richard Serra and Kara Walker, "with…
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Artists Protest Israeli Funding of São Paulo Bienal
Some 56 artists have signed an open letter to the the São Paulo Bienal foundation, asking that the organization decline funding from the state of Israel. The letter states that the artists were previo…
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Artists Activate in Response to Ferguson Shooting
The St. Louis arts community has been active in response to the fatal Aug. 9 shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by a white policeman in Ferguson, Mo.
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The Art of Protest: An Interview with Dan Perjovschi
Protests against a mining project in Romania have brought tens of thousands of people to the streets and have been the beneficiary of drawings by the sympathetic artist Dan Perjovschi, one of the be…
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