Art and politics have always been inseparable. Long before social media algorithms and 24-hour news cycles, people used images, songs, murals, and performances to say what speeches alone could not.

Late last year David Gleeson and Mary Mihelic, cofounders of politically minded art collective T. Rutt, learned via Rachel Maddow that a Donald Trump campaign bus was up for sale on Craigslist in Des ...

Emily Sulzer, Samantha Ceja, Carol Wells, Lisa Kahn and Summer Benton stand in front of archives from the Center for the Study of Political Graphics. (Center for the Study of Political Graphics) ...

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 ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The Salvadoran queer artist has turned city walls into platforms for solidarity and resistance, especially amid ...

Drawing from sources as audacious as Bernie Sanders, to the savvy street-smarts of a New York City film production team, Mamdani has given voice to a new generation and forever changed the way ...

Some years ago, I was obsessed with Thomas Crow’s impressive first book, Painters in Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris (1987). I even read the PhD thesis which is its source. Because I was ...