Film
The Pitfalls and Performance of Virtue Signaling at the Democratic Debates
Every candidate likes to boast about themselves, but there's an art to getting away with it.
election
Film
Documentarian Adam Curtis Dissects the World that Gave Rise to Trump
In Hypernormalisation (2016), Adam Curtis not only anticipates Trump’s victory, but also zeroes in on the abject disbelief and shock that followed in its wake.
In Brief
Trump Team Plans to Eliminate National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities
The budget in the works by the Trump team allegedly calls for the complete elimination of the NEA and NEH, plus the privatization of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Art
Artists Channel Lady Liberty in Signs, Costumes, and Torches for the Women’s Marches
We Make America, a group formed after the election, has been crafting art inspired by the Statue of Liberty for the January 21 marches in Washington and New York.
Poetry
Art After Trump: An Alphabetical Arrangement
From aggregated apathy to zealous zombie.
Opinion
Art After Trump: A Wish List
The art world is part of the actual world. Let’s imagine and reflect the society we want to live in.
Poetry
Art After Trump: Turning to Women Authors
I revisited the books I read after the election and made a poem, or conversation, out of some of the things I underlined.
Opinion
Art After Trump: Eschewing Empathy for Self-Care
As an artist, I want to invoke something you can imagine — or even better, have experienced — and then ask you to start applying that lived knowledge outwards.
Art
Art After Trump: An Email Exchange with a Texas Elector
A liberal journalist briefly converses with a red-state elector.
Hyperallergic
Art After Trump, a Night of Creative Responses to the Election
On December 15, Hyperallergic will co-present a marathon night of readings and performances at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe.
Opinion
Reconsidering the Aesthetics of Protest
Public witness can’t really be found in a shout or an insult. It can only be found when we witness an openness between people.
Opinion
Modeling Artistic Resistance in the Era of Trump
We are artists not just by the objects we make, but by the communities we build, the work we advocate for, and the activism in which we participate.