See how artists have shaped politics and politicians have failed to stop them. Art and politics may seem like mortal enemies, but they’re more like best frenemies forever. In this episode of Crash ...

In an era marked by backsliding on human and civil rights, any artistic work that centers marginalized voices can feel inherently political simply by existing. Detroit Opera's “Highways and Valleys — ...

Howardena Pindell had already created the spiraling mess of oranges, yellows, blues, and greens, footprinted with red arrows indicating the path of the swirls, when she realized that the lithograph ...

In the wake of the overthrow of Charles X, Eugène Delacroix gave life to his now-famous painting, “Liberty Leading the People,” to celebrate what he hoped was a new era of French freedom. A decade ...

Just a little over fifty years ago, I wanted to read the most challenging new art history writing. And so I purchased T. J. Clark’s first two books: The Absolute Bourgeois: Artists and Politics in ...

Gherao,” a two-site Hudson Valley exhibition of 30 artists inspired by Dread Scott’s Fall of Freedom, unites powerful ...

Last month the world learned of the following Website message co-signed by Ansar al-Sunna, the Islamic Army of Iraq, and the Army of the Mujahideen: “Democracy is un-Islamic.” An earlier posted ...

Where art history is a subjective observer, he was on an active quest for the representational form for the “truth.” ...

A coalition of Florida grassroots organizations is planning an "art-based" protest Saturday outside the Adrienne Arsht Center for Performing Arts to call out Florida Grand Opera Chair Tina Vidal-Duart ...

The Pat Oliphant documentary 'A Savage Art,' directed by Bill Banowsky, explores one of the greatest political cartoonists of ...

Leon Zeman's undated "Third Ave. Bridge" is part of the upcoming "Inspired by Cedar Rapids: 175 Years of Art" exhibition at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. A collection of works celebrating the city's ...

In ‘What Women Want’, journalist Ruhi Tewari examines how women began to wield their political power and what shapes their ...