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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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A Working-Class Artist Is Something to Be

by Billy Anania April 25, 2022April 26, 2022

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

by Billy Anania April 18, 2022April 18, 2022

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

by Billy Anania April 12, 2022May 5, 2022

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

by Billy Anania April 11, 2022April 22, 2022

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

by Billy Anania March 23, 2022March 23, 2022

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?

by Billy Anania March 10, 2022March 14, 2022

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

by Billy Anania February 28, 2022February 28, 2022

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.

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Famakan Magassa’s Virtuous Vice

by Billy Anania February 15, 2022February 15, 2022

The Malian painter’s first solo exhibition in New York muses on the desires and compulsions that guide us toward enlightenment — and occasionally get us into trouble.

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The Joyful Return of a Trans Icon and Electronic Music Pioneer

by Billy Anania February 14, 2022February 14, 2022

In the 36 years since recording the seminal Keyboard Fantasies, Beverly Glenn-Copeland has risen from elusive singer-songwriter to global phenomenon.

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Artists Are Embracing the Power of Refusal

by Billy Anania February 3, 2022February 8, 2022

Amid today’s rampant wealth consolidation and labor exploitation, contemporary art has shifted from bourgeois keepsake to active participant in the working-class struggle.

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The General Strike in Modern Art

by Billy Anania February 2, 2022February 2, 2022

A massive strike wave in the 19th and 20th centuries redefined how painters, illustrators, and photographers advocate for the working class.

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The Ancient Art of Organized Labor

by Billy Anania February 1, 2022February 2, 2022

From Egyptian craftsmen to European textile workers, artists have always found strength in numbers.

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