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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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Bronx Calling Recognizes Artists’ Individuality but Neglects Art-World Gentrification

by Billy Anania January 17, 2022January 19, 2022

The Bronx Museum’s fifth biennial continues to focus its programming on individual identity, eliding the ever-divergent interests of the art market and local communities.

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How the First “Viral” Media Spawned a Peasant Uprising in Germany

by Billy Anania December 27, 2021December 27, 2021

Pamphlets on Reformation-era poverty, widely considered Europe’s first drafts of human rights, were printed millions of times in the early 16th century.

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Bob Thompson’s Provocative Challenge to Euro-American Art History

by Billy Anania December 20, 2021December 20, 2021

A new retrospective expands on the late artist’s legacy as a Black Expressionist who teased out Civil Rights-era tensions in the United States.

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In Ethiopia, Artists Protect the Environment Through “Plant Graffiti”

by Billy Anania December 6, 2021December 6, 2021

Researchers and artists are working to restore biodiversity in Kofele, Ethiopia, through a 50-meter tree nursery in the shape of a lion that will be visible from outer space.

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A Coalition of Artists Promote Indigenous and Environmental Struggles Through Open Access Art

by Billy Anania December 5, 2021December 3, 2021

Throughout 2021, Indigenous water protectors and climate justice groups have distributed copyright-free artworks supporting recent anti-pipeline protests in Minnesota.

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Genieve Figgis Paints High Society as a Spectacle of Humor and Horror

by Billy Anania November 21, 2021November 19, 2021

Figgis’s musings on bourgeois decadence feel particularly canny in a time of widespread inequality.

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Eco-Feminist Art Collective Protests UN Climate Summit with Textiles

by Billy Anania November 15, 2021November 15, 2021

Founded by Dora Napolitano in 2016, Zurciendo el Planeta planted its “Forest of Hope” international embroidery project in art spaces across Glasgow during COP26.

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A Cameroonian Artist Explores the Ambazonian Fight for Post-colonial Freedom

by Billy Anania November 10, 2021November 11, 2021

In his Afro-Expressionist paintings and installations, Adjani Okpu-Egbe ruminates on native resistance in Cameroon and the colonial propaganda promoted in mainstream media.

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An Anarchist Illustrator Looks to Radical Histories to Fight Fascism

by Billy Anania October 19, 2021October 20, 2021

N.O. Bonzo’s illustrations, murals, and literature build on radical art traditions, addressing relations of labor and identity in local communities and protest movements.

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How Landscape Became Doctrine in American Art

by Billy Anania October 17, 2021October 20, 2021

In his new book, Tyler Green argues that landscape was Emerson’s method of glorifying territories shaped and bordered by White men.

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A Bipartisan Bill Aims to Assist Arts Workers

by Billy Anania October 3, 2021October 1, 2021

The Creative Economy Revitalization Act (CERA) proposes a $300 million federal grants and commissions program for art workers.

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Spirited Textiles Capture the Fervor of Recent Political Unrest

by Billy Anania September 26, 2021September 24, 2021

Tabitha Arnold’s rugs pay tribute to organizers who lay their bodies on the line in the workplace, in the public square, and in the depths of private prisons.

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