The “Patria y Vida” video is spreading like wildfire in Cuba and Miami, a sign of widespread discontent on the island as well as unity among Cubans.
Tag: political art
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Victor Burgin’s Unclassifiable Take on the Passages of Art and Life
The artist’s landmark experimental text, Between, now reissued, remains one of a kind more than three decades after its publication.
Posted inOpinion
Trump’s Last Act
The most incandescent of invectives now feel like simple statements of fact.
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Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s Photostats Document Subjugation and Violence
The artist stretched constructs of authority and authorship to impel the viewer’s awareness and participation.
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Peter Saul, American Gadfly
Before he turned 30, it was clear that Saul had found his subject: an American society deeply rooted in consumerism, pervasive racism, and toxic masculinity.
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The Prophecies of Deborah Kass
What can we say about an image that understood Trump’s root persona early on, and froze it in time?
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Dissident Visions With a Dose of Play
Minerva Cuevas exposes the contradictions of the socioeconomic systems that rule our daily life in her first solo show in New York.
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Mo Kong Maps a Post-Climate Change Future
Kong’s background as a recent Chinese immigrant and, especially, a former investigative reporter help account for the exhibition’s methods and mood.
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Artist Drops 800-Pound Heroin Spoon Outside OxyContin Manufacturer’s Headquarters
Artist Domenic Esposito and gallerist Fernando Luis Alvarez delivered the giant sculpture to the doorstep of drugmaker Purdue Pharma.
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Provocative Art about Blood and Masks
Daniel Pešta’s paintings refute the conventions of classical beauty but their nightmarish imagery can be exquisite.
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Danh Vo’s Elegy for Democracy
Drawing on many genres and styles, Vo meditates on history, freedom, love, faith, and death.
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After Incendiary Performance, Russian Artist Awaits His Fate
Petr Pavlensky fled Russia in 2017, but late last year he was arrested after setting fire to France’s central bank. The subsequent legal proceedings have been cloaked in secrecy.