“Spirits return because something in the social fabric was left unfinished—an unacknowledged injustice, a normalized cruelty, a promise broken within a rigid order that leaves little room for repair.”
History into Fear: The Ghosts of Edo
Raymond Darlington’s Expressionist Realism
“Although he personally describes his art as Afro-realism, when we look at it with historical circumspection, we will be more attuned to link it to the larger zeitgeist of a slew of known and unknown artists operating presently in the Internet and social media spaces, so that it almost feels like a movement.”
Syria, I Went Back
“And now, one year later, I would walk into an arrivals hall at Damascus airport filled with Syrian families crying and hugging separated sons, now-married daughters, and children that have never seen their homeland. So many tears.”
When the Revolution Comes, Our Songs Will Be Sung
Korean social movements are repurposing the tradition of minjung-gayo (people’s music) by creatively incorporating K-pop and messages about women’s struggles today.
Woodcuts Against Fascism from Shanghai to Mexico City
Eighty years after the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War, we remember how artists from China to Mexico have used art as a practice of solidarity and a tool for revolutionary social transformation.
Robert S. Duncanson: Only Paint on His Mind
Duncanson’s skill established him not only in this county, but in England and throughout Europe as America’s first internationally renowned African American artist.
The Great Unknown and the Unknown Great: Rediscovering artist and political activist Chuzo Tamotsu
His art was “One small way to express my love for peace and hatred for war … is to do what I can for any victims of aggression, wherever they may be.”
John Heartfield, photomontage as a political weapon
“He inscribed the slogan ‘use photography as a weapon,’ which underlines his faith in the impact of this new medium and its ability to denounce the perversities of the modern world: fascism, war and its atrocities, Nazism or capitalism.”
A Short Anti-Fascist Playlist
“To them, popular culture mattered, it was vibrant, and it was politically up for grabs.”
The Enduring Power of Minnie Evans
“By making and sharing such an extraordinary body of work, Evans determined that her world would not be lost.”
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