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Political Art

The Museum of London Has Added the ‘Trump Baby Blimp’ to Its Protest Collection

Parody art has always been a staple of political criticism, but this example certainly feels unique.
By Helen Holmes

Banksy Departs From His Recent Political Art With Graffiti of a Hula-Hooping Girl

Banksy has lately used his art to comment on Black Lives Matter and the pandemic, but this piece seems to be just a girl with a hula hoop.
By Helen Holmes

Andrew Cuomo’s Nautical-Themed 2020 Vision Poster Is the Wildest Art of the Week

Created for Cuomo by Brooklyn artist Rusty Zimmerman, it includes a dizzying landscape of sea creatures representing political threats.
By Helen Holmes

Banksy’s Latest Provocation in Bethlehem Delivers Exactly What the City Doesn’t Need

By Helen Holmes

From Controversial Cartoons to Political Purses, 5 Ways Artists are Getting People to Vote

By Sara Radin
Sue Coe, Healthcare Not Warfare, 2017.

A Century Later, Artist Sue Coe Takes Up Käthe Kollwitz’s Social Justice Crusade

By Margaret Carrigan
Alfredo Jaar, The Garden of Good and Evil, 2017.

Alfredo Jaar Creates a Garden of Good and Evil in Northern England

By Margaret Carrigan
Installation view, Rachel Maclean, Spite Your Face, 2017.

Pinocchio Is a Metaphor for Politics at the Venice Biennale

By Alanna Martinez
A recently painted mural by British graffiti artist Banksy, depicting a workman chipping away at one of the stars on a European Union (EU) themed flag, is pictured in Dover, south east England on May 8, 2017.

Finally, Banksy Has Some Feelings on Brexit

By Alanna Martinez
Institutions from MoMA to the Art Institute of Chicago will be hosting this spring's blockbuster museum shows.

Top 10 Must-See Museum Shows Opening This Spring

By Alanna Martinez
A rendering for Ai Weiwei's Good Fences Make Good Neighbors, a project with the Public Art Project coming to New York in October 2017.

Ai Weiwei Plans to Put Up Fences Across New York

By Alanna Martinez
Protesters make their way through the streets of London during the Women's March on January 21, 2017 in London, England.

Americans Respond to Trump: We’re Going to Need More Art Supplies

By Alanna Martinez
Tahiti Pehrson, The Fates, commissioned by Art Art at Viacom.

A Recipe for the Perfect Art Fair

By Alanna Martinez
Photo by Jasmine Ting/ Observer

Illegal Fashion Show Reveals Thriving Cultural Talents

By Jasmine Ting
The Office for Creative Research's We Were Strangers Once Too is a public sculpture that will be installed in Times Square, featuring data about the United States immigrant populations.

Public Sculpture Displaying Data on US Immigrants Planned for Times Square

By Alanna Martinez
David Burnett, [Larry King, Bill Clinton, and Al Gore Preparing a Television Interview], 1992.

How the White House Was Won (in Pictures), and 5 Other Things to Do in New York Now

By Alanna Martinez
J. K. Rowling attends the press preview of "Harry Potter & The Cursed Child" at Palace Theatre on July 30, 2016 in London, England. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, is a two-part West End stage play written by Jack Thorne based on an original new story by Thorne, J.K. Rowling and John Tiffany.

JK Rowling Drops Hint on New Book, Women’s March Seeks Original Art

By Alanna Martinez
Terence Broad, Blade Runner—Autoencoded, 2016.

AI Trained to Reconstruct ‘Blade Runner’ From Memory, and 6 Other Things to Do

By Alanna Martinez
Barack Obama.

Figurative Art: Here’s a Portrait of President Obama Using Numbers

By Charis Tsevis
MICA exhibition.

Art’s Not Always Safe: The Fate of Arts Education in the Age of the Microaggression

By Daniel Grant
circa 1955: The fort of Fuerte Bulnes at the southern tip of the American continent. The statue of Manuel Bulnes, General of the Wars of Liberation and President of Chile in 1841, stands beside old cannons at the fort.

Paul Gauguin’s Father Found in Chile, Presidential Losers on View in Brooklyn

By Alanna Martinez
Students drawing Iggy Pop during a life drawing class at the New York Academy of Art. The work will go on view for Jeremy Deller's exhibition "Iggy Pop Life Class" at the Brooklyn Museum this fall.

Drawings of Iggy Pop’s Body at Brooklyn Museum, and 5 Things to Do Until Election Day

By Alanna Martinez
Retired electrician Pierre Le Guennec harbored a collection of 271 works by Pablo Picasso, the French newspaper Liberation reported today. Picasso's heir, Claude Picasso, who filled a complaint, dismissed Le Guennec's claim that he could have received the paintings as gifts, telling Liberation that his father would not have given such a quantity of works to anyone, after Le Guennec told he had been given the works as presents, either by Picasso's wife or from the artist himself. AFP PHOTO VALERY HACHE (Photo credit should read )

Picasso’s Handyman Claims Hidden Hoard Were Gifts, Ai Weiwei Lashes Out During Talk

By Alanna Martinez
Angst 3, Anne Imhof, 18. and 19. October 2016, 19h–23h, Musée d’art contemporain Montreal.

The Montreal Biennial Is a MasterClass in How to Ask Big Questions With Art

By Alanna Martinez
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