Opinion
White Supremacy's Strange Skittles Obsession
The US Presidential election cycle has become a hotbed of coded memes and imagery.
Donald Trump
News
Light Projection Aims to Remind Trump His Tower Was Built by Undocumented Workers
To protest Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric, activists projected 30-foot-tall images of migrant workers onto the gleaming façade of Trump Tower in Midtown Manhattan on September 8.
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In Brief
Donald Trump Used His Foundation's Money to Buy a Painting of Himself [UPDATED]
A thick veil of mystery swaths the Donald J. Trump Foundation and its many transactions, but a recent investigation has determined that its wispy-haired founder once spent $20,000 of his charity's money to purchase a portrait for his own keeping.
Art
Modeling the Modern Witch in the Age of Trump
Americans love their mythos almost as much as they love their country. But with the appalling lack of civility during this year’s election, a few monsters of our past are returning to wreak havoc.
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Street Artists Erect Nude Sculpture of Donald Trump in New York’s Union Square [UPDATED]
Today, Donald Trump stood nude in the center of Union Square.
Art
How Trump Trades on Nostalgia for a Mythic White America
Racist sentiments often coexist with a mythologized past of a pure America inhabited only by white Christian people.
News
Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: two men tried to steal a copy of a Banksy, a sculptural tribute to Trump was set on fire, and Alec Baldwin accused Mary Boone of selling him the wrong Ross Bleckner painting.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: a punk rocker righted the gender imbalance in an exhibition on the genre's history, two Monets were seized from a Malaysian businessman accused of fraud, and a court ordered artist Orlan to pay Lady Gaga $22,000.
Art
The Shelf Life of Political Art
Tucked into a side wall at Postmasters Gallery in Tribeca, as part of a handsome group show called Grayscale, there are five new drawings by William Powhida, one of which is titled “Is Donald Trump an Existential Threat? Or Just A Major Asshole…”
News
"Trump Huts" May Crop Up Around US as Luxury Protest Tents
For the first three days of the Republican National Convention, a super-sized version of Donald Trump's signature coiffure swept its way across Cleveland, inviting anyone to enter its gleaming, golden locks.
In Brief
In Response to the RNC, Artists and Activists Go Wall Out Against Trump
In the wake of Donald J. Trump's official coronation as the Republican presidential nominee for 2016, the art of wall building is reaching new heights.
News
Artists Start to Build Trump’s Border Wall, Using Anti-Trump Art
The beginnings of a wall with Trump's name on it have emerged along the US-Mexico border, but it is not likely what the presumptive Republican nominee has in mind.