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.
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Artists Join the Fight to Protect Standing Rock
In North Dakota and beyond, Native American artists and their allies are creating work in support of the water protectors fighting the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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#DecolonizeThisPlace Demands Removal of Natural History Museum’s Roosevelt Statue [UPDATED]
Over 200 people took part in the Decolonize This Place tour of the American Museum of Natural History, and joined the rally outside the museum to remove the controversial Roosevelt statue.
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Anti-BP Protesters Release Pirates, Merpeople, and the Kraken at the British Museum
LONDON — The irony of oil company BP sponsoring the British Museum’s current exhibition Sunken Cities will have been lost on few.
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Construction of Dakota Access Pipeline May Have Bulldozed Indigenous History
Last Friday, Tim Mentz, Sr., former Standing Rock Sioux tribal historic preservation officer, filed a declaration with the US district court detailing archaeological sites, including graves, alongside the planned pathway of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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Protesters Demand “Where Is Ana Mendieta?” in Tate Modern Expansion
LONDON — Posters all around London advertising Tate Modern’s new building proudly proclaim: “Art Changes. We Change.”
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Greenpeace Activists Climb the British Museum to Protest BP Sponsorship
Today, the British Museum received a guerrilla re-branding from activists urging it to drop its sponsorship deal with BP, an agreement now in talks for possible renewal next year.
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Treatment of Adjuncts Spurs Protests at Pacific Northwest College of Art
Students and teachers at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon, protested on campus this week, demanding that adjunct professors be rehired with contracts after some of the college's most influential educators were unceremoniously left out of next semester's class schedule.
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Paris's Art Models Protest for Job Security and Better Wages
PARIS — On Saturday afternoon, people trickled across the large plaza in front of the Hôtel de Ville.
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Guards at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Protest Changes They Fear Could Endanger Collection
BOSTON — Last weekend, gallery guards of the Museum of Fine Arts were standing outside the institution’s main entrance on Huntington Avenue holding signs, passing out leaflets, and singing as part of their ongoing protest.
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Artists and Activists Sing, Spill “Oil” in Anti–Fossil Fuel Protests at the Louvre
PARIS — As leaders from around the world met here for a tenth day of climate change policy negotiations, more than a hundred activists and members of several art collectives gathered at the Louvre this afternoon to highlight the institution’s ties to the fossil fuel industry.
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Photography and Foreboding in 1970s Japan
For a New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography, 1968–1979 offers an ambitious social and art history of a decade ignited by protest, shaped by global power dynamics, and visualized through new art forms.