29 06, 2018

“Make America Great Again”: Regina Jose Galindo’s Performance Art Illustrates the Struggles of Immigration

By |2019-03-28T04:44:45+00:00June 29th, 2018|Arts & Letters, Practice|0 Comments

Art of Politics, Politics of Art, A Series By: Jeanette Joy Harris In this series, Jeanette Joy Harris looks at how artists

9 02, 2018

“To Art Its Freedom”: Right-Wing Arts Policy in the New Austria

By |2019-03-29T06:04:43+00:00February 9th, 2018|Arts & Letters, Practice, Theory|0 Comments

Art can be a challenge to power, or be power’s instrument. Sometimes it can even end up being both. This last is what happened recently in Austria, where a new, right-wing government has adopted the motto of an art movement that formed in Vienna in 1897, precisely in opposition to conservative leadership.

12 01, 2018

Performing a Seduction: Performance Art Houston’s “Political Seducer’s Diary”

By |2019-03-29T17:15:56+00:00January 12th, 2018|Arts & Letters|0 Comments

Inspired by Kierkegaard’s “The Seducer’s Diary,” @PerformanceArtHouston asks how the question “what is beautiful” might determine “what is just” and ultimately affect politics.

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