Interview
Earlier this month, Albuquerque-based social practice artists Naomi Natale and Susan McAllister, founders of the Art of Revolution, were among six others to receive the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation's inaugural Artist as Activist fellowship.
Art
CHICAGO — A gallery at the Chicago Artists Coalition currently holds more than just a few pieces of art.
Art
What kind of painting do you make in the face of the killing of an unarmed civilian by a police officer? What type of drawing sums up the pain of more than a century of institutional racism?
Art
Brooklyn's Interference Archive is showcasing the work of the women who occupied the area surrounding England's cruise missile installation, reshaping British public opinion and attracting international attention to the nuclear arms race.
Art
The 34-year-old Emma Goldman Papers Project is in limbo after losing its affiliation with UC Berkeley and running through its funding.
Art
LONDON — Two inflatable cobblestones, outsized and dully metallic, hang from the ceiling. It’s implicit: these are material agents of anarchy, the airborne heralds of revolution.
Art
Earlier this month the New York City sites of 12 pedestrian or bicyclist fatalities by cars were memorialized with stencils of wings and roses.
Art
Three decades of activist material from what is one of Great Britain's most intensive international grassroots political organizations is now online.
Opinion
In today's high-paced media environment, yesterday's footage of Russian security officials in traditional Cossack headgear whipping members of Pussy Riot (below) has already made it into the activist group's latest video, "Putin Will Teach You How to Love."
Interview
You can put many things in a museum — paintings, sculptures, skeletons, interactive displays illustrating mathematical concepts — but what about activism? How do you exhibit it while also keeping it, or insisting that it is still, alive? Those are questions facing Bill Di Paola and Laurie Mittelmann
News
LOS ANGELES – Political activist Jeff Olson was acquitted today of vandalism charges brought against him by the city of San Diego in a case that even the mayor called “nonsense prosecution.”
News
LOS ANGELES – Political activist Jeff Olson was acquitted today of vandalism charges brought against him by the city of San Diego in a case that even the mayor called “nonsense prosecution.”