Art

No Music For ICE! Musicians: Pull your Music From Amazon This Holiday Season

November 29, 2019 Staff, Medium.com Resist! Art, ICE, Immigration, Music, Protests

In an escalation of our NoMusicForICE campaign, we just issued takedown notices to pull our music from Amazon’s digital platform, and you can too. We’re calling on musicians & labels who oppose ICE’s human rights abuses to join us during the holiday season. Read on for why, and how, you can join us in a collective digital takedown, in solidarity with groups fighting Amazon’s support of ICE nationwide. Mass takedowns will begin on Black Friday and continue throughout Amazon’s all-important holiday shopping season.

Concert For Assange Outside UK Home Office Demands “No Extradition!”

November 7, 2019 Laura Tiernan, Wsws.org Resist! Art, Julian Assange, Solidarity

Hundreds gathered outside the UK Home Office in central London last night for a concert in support of imprisoned WikiLeaks founder and multi-award-winning journalist Julian Assange. Rap artist M.I.A. performed and was joined by Assange’s father John Shipton and fashion icon Vivienne Westwood. The event was organised by Don’t Extradite Assange, a newly formed campaign group that works closely with Assange’s legal team. Longstanding supporters of Assange were joined by fans of M.I.A. and fellow rap-artist Lowkey.

Michael Brown’s Death Continues To Be A Catalyst For Change

August 15, 2019 Lornet Turnbull, Waging Nonviolence. Resist! Art, Ferguson, Mike Brown, Police abuse

Michael Brown Sr. lies stock-still on his back on the floor of an art studio in St. Louis as an artist layers papier-mache on his arms, chest, and torso. Brown Sr. is a stand-in, the model for a life-size replica that St. Louis artist Dail Chambers is creating to represent Michael Brown Jr. — his deceased son. In the days and weeks that followed, other artists added their own interpretations to the cast, and community leaders, family, friends, and activists affixed messages of remembrance, of hope, as well as photos and tributes to Brown Jr. “Although everybody else has left since your death, we are still here fighting,” one 16-year-old girl wrote. The final exhibit, called “As I See You,” will be part of a memorial Aug. 9–11 for Brown Jr., five years after a police officer took the 18-year-old’s life in Ferguson, Missouri.

The Artist As Prophet

August 6, 2019 Chris Hedges, Truthdig Strategize! Art

Where is America headed? As the question is endlessly argued, especially during the presidential campaign, potential answers tend to inhabit political realms. However, Chris Hedges, suggests that we also look elsewhere in seeking answers: to our artists. The artist, if true to his or her vocation, recovers the past and explains the present. The artist is the true chronicler of who we were and where we came from. Culture, in times of distress, is not a luxury but a life raft.

Whitewashing American History The WPA Mural Controversy In San Francisco

July 25, 2019 Jack Heyman, Internationalist.org Resist! Art, History, Mural, Revisionism, San Francisco

There has a been a controversy percolating the last couple of years over protests against the 13-panel “Life of Washington” murals painted in 1936 by Works Progress Administration (WPA) artist Victor Arnautoff that are on display at George Washington High School in San Francisco. These murals dared to challenge the patriotic stereotype of Washington, instead portraying him as a slaveholder and military commander overseeing the genocide of American Indians. This radical artist was in many ways far ahead of his time, seeking to portray the brutal reality of U.S. history not the myth ensconced in school textbooks and the national anthem by the ruling class.

139 Scholars Implore SF School Board Not To Destroy Historic George Washington Mural

July 8, 2019 Staff, Nonsite.org Resist! Art, History, Mural

A Federal Art Project mural cycle of thirteen panels devised and painted by Victor Arnautoff in 1936 in a San Francisco high school portrays George Washington as a slave owner and as the author of Native-American genocide. It is an important work of art, produced for all Americans under the auspices of a federal government seeking to ensure the survival of art during the Great Depression. Its meaning and commitments are not in dispute. It exposes and denounces in pictorial form the U.S. history of racism and colonialism. The only viewers who should feel unsafe before this mural are racists.

BP Portrait Award Protests

June 18, 2019 Marianne Brooker, Theecologist.org Resist! Art, BP, Protests

Entrances to National Portrait Gallery blocked by performance activists, preventing guests from entering the gallery. A group of thirty artists, performers and activists arrived at the National Portrait Gallery to disrupt the announcement ceremony of the BP Portrait Award this week. While some of the group linked arms in doorways and chained themselves to gates to prevent party guests from entering the building, others handed out a fake awards programme that challenged BP’s long-standing sponsorship of the award.

Afrofuturism, Indigenous People And Intersectional Spaces: These Jackson Artists Hope Their Creations Inspire A Community

April 30, 2019 Eric J. Shelton, Mississippitoday.org Organize! Art, Identity Politics, Mural

Empty spray paint cans lie on the pavement, paint rollers and brushes with vibrant colors resting at his feet, Kwame Braxton, a 29-year-old artist and Jackson native, takes a moment to look at his nearly completed mural. Wearing paint splattered clothes, Braxton analyzes his approach in appropriately conveying the meaning of his piece. “What is inside of you, you can create, and what you create is also inside of you,” Braxton said of his piece covering part of the Center for Community Production building near downtown Jackson.

Arts Organizing Lifts Oakland Teachers Strike

February 22, 2019 By David Solnit, Commondreams.org Strategize! Art, Class Struggle, Oakland, Strikes, Teachers

Surrounded by a hundred teachers and supporters painting banners, screen printing fabric picket flags, and learning strike songs, Oakland teachers union president Keith Brown held a press conference announced that Oakland teachers would hold a strike vote. Every square inch of the union hall offices and parking garage was filled with people making art and singing strike songs. This is one key part of how Oakland teachers built momentum and got ready to strike. The victorious Los Angeles teachers strike last month held a similar pre-strike arts mobilization. Teacher and union arts organizer Joe Brusky says, “the art created for L.A. played a major role in winning a victory.”

OPEN: Multimedia Artist Robin Bell Envisions Inclusive Society

February 12, 2019 By John Zangas, Dcmediagroup.us Educate! Art, Equality

Washington, DC — Multimedia artist and filmmaker Robin Bell premiered a moving lights and projection exhibition of what an open and transparent society should be at the Corcoran School of Arts and Design at George Washington University. ‘OPEN: an installation by Robert Bell’, uses light and projection to celebrate transparency, belonging, and accessibility with a social commentary about closed thought, exclusion, erasure, and authoritarianism. Bell is known nationally for his works and guerilla light projections of social commentary on well-known venues in Washington, DC, New York, and Los Angeles.

Trump, World War I And The Lessons Of Poetry

November 22, 2018 Thomas Scott Tucker, Counterpunch.org Educate! Art, History, Poetry, Trump Administration, WWI

In plain English: How sweet and honorable it is to die for one’s country: death pursues the man who flees, spares not the hamstrings or cowardly backs of battle-shy youths. Poets are all too human, and some of them are moral and political imbeciles. Some poets, however, are so deeply troubled by their times that that they both extend and challenge the culture they inherit. There were at least a dozen fine English poets during World War One, and some of them died in trenches and on battlefields. Rupert Brooke, known as much for his beauty as his talent at that time, did not die in battle but on his way to battle. Virginia Woolf thought he had some sterling personal qualities.

Banksy Artwork Shreds Itself Right After Selling At Auction For $1.4 Million

October 9, 2018 Adam Rosenberg, Mashable.com Resist! Art, Painting

Which is more artful: The painted work, preserved forever on canvas; or the carefully orchestrated act of destroying said canvas? Banksy implicitly asked that very question on Friday. An auction of the artist's popular work, "Girl With Balloon," ended with the shocking display of the the piece shredding itself immediately after the winning bid of 1.04 million pounds was cast. It wasn't an accident. The ornate frame containing "Girl With Balloon" apparently concealed a shredder. Once the auction ended — with a purchase price that was three times higher than expected — an alarm sounded and the secret shredder switched on.

Disobedient Art Can Win The Fight Against Artwashing

September 19, 2018 Staff, Gofossilfree.org Resist! Activism, Art, Fossil Fuels

As artists and cultural workers we’ve chosen to undermine the power of the fossil fuel industry in our own backyard directly. We’ve put our focus on confronting artwashing, which is basically greenwashing, using art. When companies like Shell sponsor museums and cultural institutions, it’s not because they care about art, it’s to paint their faces with a veneer of goodwill and distract the public from the disastrous reality of their business practices. To make themselves look like generous contributors to society, when they are in fact the diametric opposite. Art and activism can be applied together to bring fossil-sponsored cultural institutions to their senses. It can flip outcomes for unethical sponsors on their heads – turning decoration into disgrace.

Billboard Altered In Iowa To Say “No Respect US Army”

July 22, 2018 Frank Cordaro. Resist! Art, Drones, Wars and Militarism

As part of the "NO Respect - Ground the Drones" IA Campaign a billboard supporting the US Army was altered to say "No Respect US Army." A Concerned Christian Political Artist who put the "No Respect" language on the billboard urges people to "stand against the active war zone at the Drone Command Center in Des Moines, IA. 'No Respect' should be granted to military members serving in Iowa as long as the nontransparent Drone Command Center continues to 'target, kill, and access the kill' from a computer next to the Des Moines International Airport. I plead for other Iowa Christians to speak the truth about the filthy, disgusting, and evil actions committed by the Drone Command Center in Des Moines."

700 Pound Heroin Spoon Installed Outside OxyContin Manufacturer

July 1, 2018 Nate Freeman, Artsy.net. Resist! Art, Big Pharma, health, Opioids

Connecticut - Art dealer Fernando Luis Alvarez installed a gigantic spoon-shaped sculpture by the artist Domenic Esposito in front of the headquarters of Purdue Pharma in Stamford, Connecticut, on Friday morning. Police soon arrived on the scene, told Alvarez that the sculpture needed to be removed, and issued him a ticket for “obstructing free passage.” When he refused to move the 700-pound work himself, he was arrested for “interfering with the police,” handcuffed, and briefly detained before going free. The work was then removed using a front loader.

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