Why Political Actionism Is So Popular in Russia
The sources of Russian political actionism are in the unofficial art of the 1960s. Nonconformism emerged in a country where kitschy socialist realism...
Diana Sadretdinova 7 March 2022
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Heirs to Dada: Surrealism, Fluxus and Pop Art
Dada was certainly the most virulent European avant-garde movement. Its members attacked not only artistic creation but society as a whole.
Amélie Pascutto 16 January 2022
Coca-Cola and the Explosive Art of Cildo Meireles
Protest Art is challenging and controversial. Political protest requires a focus, and protest art gives us a public space where we can have a...
Candy Bedworth 30 November 2021
The Women Who Changed Art Forever: A Novel Graphic about Feminist Art
The Women Who Changed Art Forever is a graphic novel written by Valentina Grande with the illustrations of Eva Rossetti. It’s a visual journey...
Arianna Richetti 25 November 2021
CHEAP: When Art Meets Activism – Interview with the Co-founder Sara Manfredi
“Art” and “activism” surely are not enough words to describe what CHEAP is. CHEAP is an innovative Italian street poster art...
Arianna Richetti 18 September 2021
Petticoats, Pennies, and Politics: A Short History of the Suffragette Penny
Have you ever found one of those old brown British pennies? In an antique shop or in one of Grandma’s old handbags? Just a small, flat copper disc?...
Candy Bedworth 12 December 2020
