Category Archives: democracy
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Art AIDS America at the Tacoma Art Museum on World AIDS Day
On this World AIDS Day, I offer a review of the comprehensive exhibition at the Tacoma Art Museum, Art AIDS America. It includes 127 works, many media, and a thesis that artists who addressed AIDS in the 1980s and 1990s permanently changed the course of American art by demonstrating strategies to address political issues.
This entry was posted on December 1, 2015 and is filed under American Art, Art and Activism, art criticism, Contemporary Art, democracy, First Nations Art, Uncategorized. -
Nato Thompson Seeing Power, Art and Activism in the 21st Century
My Review of Nato Thompson’s Seeing Power, Art and Activism in the 21st Century. Thompson is curator of Creative Time.
This entry was posted on November 5, 2015 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Contemporary Art, democracy. -
Rodrigo Valenzuela, the 13th man and the end of Utopia
Rodrigo Valenzuela juxtaposes the words and experiences of migrants and other workers in the midst of the collapse of the utopian discourses of modernism and its structures, both philosophical and physical. He jarringly disconnects words and images to reveal the deep fissures in our society.
This entry was posted on February 7, 2015 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, Conceptual Art, Contemporary Art, Culture and Human rights, democracy, economic imperialism vs democracy, Performance Art, Photography, Uncategorized. -
Women Artists in Seattle Part II
Women Photographers with roots in South Asia and Afghanistan show challenging work about cultural contradictions and Tanis S’eiltin, Tlinglit installation artist challenges fixed ideas on Indigenous culture.
This entry was posted on December 20, 2012 and is filed under art criticism, Conceptual Art, Contemporary Art, democracy, Feminism, Feminism, Gazelle Samizay, indians, Iran, Iranian Women, Photography, Women Artists. -
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.
