“From 1967 to the Party’s dissolution in the early 1980s, Douglas designed the art that came to define the Black Panthers and their iconography.”
Category: fine arts
Jason Farago: “The Dangerous Beauty of Jacques-Louis David”
“A landmark exhibition of drawings at the Met brings us into the studio of the French Revolution’s chief propagandist, and stages the ultimate showdown of culture and politics.”
Billy Anania: “The General Strike in Modern Art”
“A massive strike wave in the 19th and 20th centuries redefined how painters, illustrators, and photographers advocate for the working class.”
Billy Anania: “The Iconography of the Paris Commune, 150 Years Later”
A look back at how artists captured those few revolutionary months.
“How Revolution Inspired Modern Indian Artists”
“Over 100 paintings, sculptures, photographs, and archival sources trace the rise of a vibrant modern art movement from India’s colonial period through its independence.”
Dessane Lopez Cassell: ‘Vivid Posters Chart a “People’s History” of the Struggle for Social Justice’
“Be it graffiti on the apartheid wall in Palestine or the peace walls in Northern Ireland, people make visual art to tell stories everywhere, especially in times of entrenched violence and systemic oppression.”
Billy Anania: “The Viral Artwork Emerging From Hong Kong’s Protests”
“In Hong Kong, the ongoing protest movement immortalizes its political action in real time through art. … Art and politics are uniquely linked in the city, reinforcing the youth-driven struggle against human rights abuses.”
Joseph Nechvatal: “How Artists of the French Revolution Embraced Neoclassical Revivalism”
“The exhibition Revolutionary Generation: French Drawings (1770-1815) from the Fabre Museum illustrates how, as the Rococo movement went out of fashion, France’s insurrectionist artists drew on ancient Greek and Roman art for inspiration.”
“The Photos that Captured the First Day of the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia”
“August 21, 1968 at the Czech Center New York features 20 images of dynamic photo-reportage capturing the first day of the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia.”
“New Museum Triennial Takes a Global View of Aesthetic Resistance”
“Songs for Sabotage, the fourth installment of the New Museum triennial, brings together politically astute works by 30 artists and collectives from 19 countries.”