Georgetown is a center of dialogue about art and politics, integrating both of these disciplines through its diverse coursework. The department of art and art history gives students the opportunity to ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Installation view, Edward Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholz, “The Ozymandias Parade” (1985). Mixed media tableau, 12′ 8″ x 29′ 1″ x 15′. (all images ...

In Acts of Resistance (Norton, Nov.), theater producer Amber Massie-Blomfield argues that art is a powerful political force. How did you begin thinking about political art? In 2018, I was running an ...

At a Seder at Yale’s protest encampment this spring, students put their arms around each other and swayed. “If we build this world from love, then God will build this world from love,” they sang, ...

In recent months, two museum directors have stepped down from their jobs at major US art institutions. Both resigned amid social justice crises and after championing programming with a political edge.

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 ...