Art and politics have always been inseparable. Long before social media algorithms and 24-hour news cycles, people used images, songs, murals, and performances to say what speeches alone could not.

When Joan Baez sang “We Shall Overcome” at the 1963 March on Washington alongside a quarter of a million peaceful protestors, the world stood still for a moment in the face of America’s racial ...

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 ...

Detail image. Della Wells and Anne-Marie Grgich with Sandy Jo Combes, Remember Sister, We Sisters Are Married to Truth and Freedom, Not Married to Fear and Lies, 2025. Photo by Souleo. As President ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. See more from the L.A. Times in Google Search. Set us as preferred The Salvadoran queer artist has turned city ...

Some years ago, I was obsessed with Thomas Crow’s impressive first book, Painters in Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris (1987). I even read the PhD thesis which is its source. Because I was ...

With a record number of countries holding elections in 2024—including the U.S., where Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are battling it out for the White House this week—the future of democracy feels ...

Emily Sulzer, Samantha Ceja, Carol Wells, Lisa Kahn and Summer Benton stand in front of archives from the Center for the Study of Political Graphics. (Center for the Study of Political Graphics) ...

On "The Painted Protest" and the likely end of the "radlib" era of culture. Kiyan Williams, Ruins of Empire II or The Earth Swallows the Master's House (2024) in the 2024 Whitney Biennial. Photo by ...

Alethia Jones' From Sea to Shining Sea is on display as part of Political Art Month. After a 10-year absence, Political Art ...

LOS ANGELES — A private Christian university in Malibu has closed an exhibition six months ahead of schedule, following requests from at least a dozen artists to withdraw from the show after the ...