All Entries in the "politics" Category
The Assault on Artists and the First Amendment by Eric Lane
The Assault on Artists and the First Amendment by Eric Lane Last December, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., removed a video titled Fire in My Belly by the late performance artist David Wojnarowicz. It was part of a larger exhibit titled Hide/Seek: Differences and Desire in American Portraiture, that explored, through art, [...]
miscuser | Aug 03, 2011 | Comments 0
The Golden Ass/Curo de Oro at Blue Star Project Space by Robert B Gonzalez
The US-Mexico border has always been a place of exchange, but this exchange has sometimes been a sordid one, as young US males have often traveled there for cheap alcohol, pills, and sexual adventure within its Red Light districts. Julia Barbosa Landois explores issues of gender and border culture in her show The Golden Ass/Curo [...]
miscuser | Jul 27, 2011 | Comments 0
Arte De la Frontera @ International Museum of Art and Science by Rob Kolomyski
Arte de la Frontera, in Association with the 2011 Texas Biennial, was curated by Tom Matthews, STC Assistant Chair of Visual Arts & Music, and IMAS Executive Director, Joseph Bravo. The exhibit was conceived as an extension of Austin’s Texas Biennial, TX-11. There are at least sixty venues around the state showcasing what is considered [...]
miscuser | Jul 27, 2011 | Comments 0
Photography: Reality not Art by Alan Pogue
Brown Berets, Black Panthers, Gay Liberation, Women’s Liberation, Ecology Action, and Food Coops were among the many movements for social justice happening simultaneously all over the U.S. in the late 1960s. Alternative newsapapers, known as ‘the underground press,’ sprang up to fill a communication gap left by the lack of coverage in the main-stream press. [...]
miscuser | Jul 27, 2011 | Comments 0
Politics and Art by Howard Taylor
Artistic Energy in Service to the State Much of what we revere about our artistic heritage was created in service to centers of political power often to compel fear and foreboding for its enemies and servitude and adherence to a central authority by its population. Scanning a panorama of architectural monuments over a 5,000 [...]
miscuser | Jul 26, 2011 | Comments 0
Tea Party Art? Not likely: by David Fisher
Tea Party folk appear to lack an artistic agenda as part of their political movement. For the most part, that’s a good thing. “Reactionary” best describes the attitude of Tea Partiers, the desire to turn back the clock to an idealized past when the individual was superior to the community, when liberty trumped equality. The [...]
miscuser | Jul 26, 2011 | Comments 0
VOA Political Art Month 2011 now available for download!
In just a few days the 2011 PAM issue will be rolling out in locations all over Texas! But don’t worry, you can get the free download today! Click here to download the issue. Please, feel free to make copies and pass them around. Make sure everyone can hear these voices! Also, keep checking in [...]
Allen Keckonen | Jul 14, 2011 | Comments 0
Kyle Olson’s ‘Its Rigged’ Exhibit at The Blue Star Art Space
Kyle Olson’s ‘Its Rigged’ Exhibit at The Blue Star Art Space by David Freeman Kyle Olson’s exhibit, ‘Its Rigged,’ at Blue Star Contemporary Art Space, demands that the viewer discard any notion that the title posted beside each piece in the exhibit describes the literal content of the art. Instead, each title becomes a conceptually [...]
miscuser | Jul 13, 2011 | Comments 0
Human Rights Exhibit and Human Trafficking Cinference @ South Texas College
Archive: Human Rights Exhibit and Human Trafficking Cinference @ South Texas College by Phyllis L. Evans For the past five years, South Texas College, located in the US/Mexico border community of McAllen Texas, has hosted a Human Rights themed exhibition in conjunction with an annual Human Trafficking conference. The art exhibit serves as an educational [...]
miscuser | Jul 13, 2011 | Comments 0
Where are the Right Wing Political Artists?
Where are the Right Wing Political Artists? by Paul Valadez The art critic Robert Hughes points out in the program, “Degenerate Art,” the Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art: “there’s no contradiction between being a fascist and being an artist”. Hughes goes on to say [...]
miscuser | Jul 13, 2011 | Comments 0