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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

In recent months, two museum directors have stepped down from their jobs at major US art institutions. Both resigned amid social justice crises and after championing programming with a political edge.

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 ...

The heated cultural climate is felt at the fair, from a caustic Maurizio Cattelan sculpture to Cristin Tierney’s stand ...

At Art Basel Miami Beach this week, you might notice a stack of posters (glossy white paper, with red text) on the floor of ...

Out of the storm & strife of what Mexicans still refer to as “the revolution”—a confused and confusing mixture of banditry, adobe-hut Marxism, nationalism and agrarian reform which has been seething ...