Political Art

A collective of sixteen women writers of color experimenting with freedom, anti-fame, and anonymity.

Creating a poetic history book with collage.

A Raqs Media Collective member discusses politics, art, and not making art.

Art addressing war and inequality in Colombia and elsewhere.

A rare David Wojnarowicz zine is republished.

Translating protest into sculpture.

A unique approach to environmental art.

Documenting a cross-cultural politics and aesthetics.

With contributions from Naeem Mohaiemen, Martha Rosler, Devin Kenny, Swoon, and more.

Painting that works with politics and abstraction.

I never made a decision to become a film editor—or, in any case, I didn’t decide upon it at a young age and follow a single career path.

Fleshy ideas of language.

“Any take [Noll] has on arguments dimly recognizable from contemporary thought will be an unusual one.”

The secrets are boxed within. That’s what I thought two years ago in Quezon City, where I was doing research at the University of the Philippines Center for Ethnomusicology.

Public art addressing the trauma of sexual violence.

Artists and exhibitions address the AIDS crisis.

Fashioning ersatz artifacts and museological displays, two artists dispense with individual authorship to inhabit the “speculative nature of history” with an eye on the future.

“I take myself, my drawings, and this little bundle of creative forces that is me, and I try to make a chemical reaction with the world.”—Swoon

On the eve of Signs of Empire, his current show at the New Museum, the British artist and filmmaker elaborates on how philosophy and the history of cinema have influenced his practice. 

“I gave myself this education on my own eye and on my own instincts. I was trying to find a place of resonance.”