Category Archives: Art of Democracy
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Kerry James Marshall Maestro and Shaman
Kerry James Marshall Retrospective glories in the humanity and history of African Americans, and confronts the prejudices of the white eye, the white museum, the white art history
This entry was posted on March 1, 2017 and is filed under African American history, American Art, Art and Activism, art criticism, Art of Democracy, Black Art, Black Panthers, Ethnicity, Uncategorized. -
Benny Andrews: The Bicentennial Series predicts America Today *
Benny Andrews Bicentennial Series created in the early 1970s predicts the disfunction of our nation today.
This entry was posted on February 24, 2017 and is filed under African American fiction, Arican American history, Art and Activism, Art of Democracy, Black Art, Black HIstory Month, Contemporary Art, Uncategorized. -
Maria De Los Angeles: Artist, Activist, Undocumented
DACA Delayed Action for Childhood Arrivals a program that provides temporary status to young people brought here as children may be cancelled any day. Maria De Los Angeles, a DACA who is not afraid to speak out, addresses the tensions and anxieties of immigrant families in her drawings and performances.
This entry was posted on January 24, 2017 and is filed under art criticism, Art of Democracy, Feminism, Immigration, Uncategorized. -
Sarah Sze “Triple Point” The US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
Sarah Sze’s pavilion in Venice is a perfect metaphor of the disintegration of the US sense of itself.
This entry was posted on November 18, 2013 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Art of Democracy, Conceptual Art, Contemporary Art, Uncategorized, Venice, Venice Biennale. -
Obsessions in Venice
Obsessions produces hundreds of art works at the Venice Biennale
This entry was posted on November 2, 2013 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Art of Democracy, Contemporary Art, Uncategorized, Venice, Venice Biennale. -
Buster Simpson// Surveyor
Buster Simpson’s retrospective at the Frye Art Museum in context,: conceptual art, meets Marcel Duchamp
This entry was posted on August 21, 2013 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Art of Democracy, ecology, Uncategorized. -
Art and Politics at the Seattle International Film Festival
Compelling films from Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East as well as two form the US shed light on international politics in intimate ways as a counter to news cliches.
This entry was posted on July 10, 2013 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Art in Beirut, Art in War, Art of Democracy, Film, Uncategorized. -
My imaginary interview with Amy Goodman on Culture and Resistance
Democracy Now in honor of the New Year had a program called “Culture of Resistance”, but it omitted visual artists and many voices. I wrote an imaginary interview with Amy Goodman to fill the gap.
This entry was posted on January 1, 2013 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Art in War, Art of Democracy. -
From Cellos to Pens: Cultural Events that Provoke
Experimentation with classical media in music, theater and writing can be as subversive and confrontational as street protests.
This entry was posted on July 16, 2012 and is filed under Art and Politics Now, Art of Democracy, Culture and Human rights, economic imperialism vs democracy, Feminism, music, theater. -
A few thoughts on Fremont Solstice, We the People and Occupy Living Rooms
Fremont Solstice Parade, We the People festival and Occupy Living Rooms, a play, all express collaborative creativity that resists categories of art and politics.
This entry was posted on July 14, 2012 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art of Democracy, democracy. -
Art of Democracy An Amazing Project
There is so much to write about The Art of Democracy project. In this photo I am talking to Art Hazelwood in the Meridian Gallery in San Francisco. Hazelwood and Steve Fredericks of New York Society of Etchers are the two main organizers of the nation wide project. It includes exhibitions in states across the […]
This entry was posted on November 1, 2008 and is filed under Art of Democracy, Galeria Zapitista, Meridian Gallery, Oakland African American Museum, Two Walls Vashon Island. -
Art of Democracy and Selma Waldman
Pornography of Power: The Anti War Art of Selma Waldman is part of a network of exhibitions taking place all over the country under the auspices of Art of Democracy. I will write about them next. Selma Waldman’s exhibition, the first since her death in April, is at Seattle Central Community College. It includes an […]
This entry was posted on October 8, 2008 and is filed under Art of Democracy, Pornography of Power, Selma Waldman. -
Boris Groys Art and Power
I just found a new book by Boris Groys. His arguments are strangely out of date, although this is a new book from 2008. “If we want to speak about the ability of art to resist external pressure, the question must first be asked Does art have its own territory that is worthy of defending?The […]
This entry was posted on September 17, 2008 and is filed under Art of Democracy, Boris Groys, Martha Rosler.
