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16 Acts of Artistic Resistance Happening This Weekend
The exhibitions, performances, readings, and more are just a sliver of the more than 500 events in the nationwide Fall of Freedom series.
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Why the Right Can’t Stand the “No Kings” Aesthetic
The growing movement’s visual language includes protest art and costumes that subvert President Trump's patriotic iconography.
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Artists Nationwide Unite Against the Trump Administration
Fall of Freedom is a new initiative mobilizing the cultural community to lead acts of “creative resistance” against authoritarian forces.
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Indigenous Artists Reclaim The Met’s American Wing
An unsanctioned exhibition uses AR to insert works by Native artists, like Cannupa Hanska Luger and Jeremy Dennis, into the museum’s 19th-century landscapes.
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Is Political Protest a Collaborative Art Form?
Hyperallergic speaks to artist and academic Işıl Eğrikavuk about whether art can help keep the spirit of protests alive.
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Haunting Shadow of Scrubbed Banksy Mural Goes Viral
The erasure of the mural outside London’s Court of Justice has become a metaphor for widespread government crackdowns on protesters around the world.
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Banksy Paints Mural of Judge Beating Protester After Mass Arrests in London
The artwork, which was quickly covered, surfaced days after police arrested almost 900 people at a demonstration in support of Palestinian activists.
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With Cafecito Cups and Direct Action, Miami Artists Rise Against “Alligator Alcatraz”
As the notorious detention center faces legal setbacks, an exhibition in Little Havana underscores the need to keep resisting.
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Anish Kapoor Greenpeace Collab Sends Generic Environmental Message
Does it add anything to the conversation?
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LA Artists and Orgs Stand in Solidarity With Anti-ICE Protesters
While small groups issue condemnations of state violence and share helpful resources for communities under attack, the big museums largely remain silent.
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A Giant Vulva Is Walking the Streets of Europe
Dressed in flowing pink robes, artist and activist Dee Mulrooney — or “Growler” — is urging the British Museum to return a Síle na Giġ statue back to Ireland.
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The Best Signs and Art of This Year’s Massive May Day Protests
From criticism of mass deportations to hilarious roasts of the president, May 1 was a nationwide show of art-filled resistance against the Trump administration.