Activism
Discipline, resistance, and care flow through the performance artist’s work.
Two artists drawing from punk, graffiti, and traditional Native American aesthetics, talk about protest art and the notion of the “Post-Smithsonian delinquent.”
The citizen investigator as poet.
A political exhibition wrestles with its complicity.
Sex as ecstasy and trap.
The poet on prison writing, collective art-making, Bay-area resistance, and being read in a thousand years.
A New York- and Cairo-based artist unpacks her understanding of heritage and how it can operate in contemporary art.
“I won’t open my palm for those wanting to dominate.”
On the day of POTUS 45’s inauguration, alt-right front man Richard Spencer was punched in the face during an interview for Australian television.
“Activism always involves a kind of coalition building, but the kind of community art is capable of building extends further, to the dead and the unborn.”
How willful captivity shaped a sculptor’s practice.
An architect talks about her data maps of urban conflict from Brooklyn to Aleppo.
Brooklyn-based artist Ati Maier is currently in North Dakota, where she has joined the Standing Rock Sioux in their demonstrations against the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Brooklyn-based artist Ati Maier is currently in North Dakota, where she has joined the Standing Rock Sioux in their demonstrations against the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Brooklyn-based artist Ati Maier is currently in North Dakota, where she has joined the Standing Rock Sioux in their demonstrations against the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Brooklyn-based artist Ati Maier is currently in North Dakota, where she has joined the Standing Rock Sioux in their demonstrations against the Dakota Access Pipeline.
For her residency at the New Museum, Leigh looks at the act of healing through the lens of black female caregivers, educators, and intellectuals.
So, instead of taking the long view, eventually looking back, we’ve opted to respond now—in more or less the heat of the moment, starting tomorrow—for the weeklong series We Are Orlando. Because BOMB is about heat, is it not?
