Time is itself a recycling process for Cole, whose freewheeling spirit transcends linearity in his excavations of art and music history.
Billy Anania
Billy Anania is an editor, critic, and journalist in New York City whose work focuses on political economy in the cultural industries and the history of art in global liberation movements.
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Highlights From Columbia University’s MFA Thesis Exhibition
Every corner and crevice of Columbia University’s MFA Thesis show feels lived in, reflecting not just artists’ experience quarantining with their work, but also that of re-entering society.
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Margaret Thatcher Statue Egged Within Hours of Unveiling
Jeremy Webster of Leicester University’s Attenborough Arts Centre reportedly pelted the statue from behind a fence.
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Documentary Workers Unite Against the Odds
We spoke with workers at the International Documentary Association about their successful fight for a union.
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Keisha Prioleau-Martin’s Body Euphoria
The artist represents what she describes as the “inner glowing life of individuals,” uplifting self-love despite political and economic strife.
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A Working-Class Artist Is Something to Be
Since 2019, Art Workers’ Inquiry has been developing methods for everyday art workers to speak openly on capitalism and colonialism in the art world.
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Sustainability as a Form of Resistance in Art
At NYU’s Latinx Project, a group exhibition explores how Latin, African, and Asian diaspora artists promote sustainability beyond borders.
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Dora García Documents Networks of Feminist Survival in Mexico City
In two shorts showing as part of García’s exhibition at Amant, she explores the unfinished revolution of diplomat Alexandra Kollontai.
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Shedding Light on Homelessness Through Artistic Ingenuity
The unhoused can teach a masterclass on survival — and that we are all just one stroke of bad luck away from the same fate.
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The Problems and Pleasures of an Activist Art Exhibition
I am often skeptical of protest art behind glass, yet I still cannot deny the pleasure of experiencing politically charged artworks in a venue making the effort.
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Was Jacques-Louis David Really That Radical?
Rather than accentuating his radicalism, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new exhibition makes Jacques-Louis David a compelling case study in opportunism and survival.
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Revisiting Latin American Artists’ Struggle for Representation in the United States
While the 1965 Immigration Act opened the United States for expanded Latin American immigration, the decade that followed found migrant artists actively involved in political struggles for representation.