Annually, the artwork from selected high-school artists nationwide is hung on the walls of a long tunnel connecting the House Office Buildings to the US Capitol, yet Pulphus’s painting has become the ...

MADRID — In 1951, the American artist Ben Shahn proclaimed in a speech at the University of Buffalo: “It is the mission of art to remind man from time to time that he is human, and the time is ripe, ...

TJ Clark takes the title of his newest work, Those Passions, from Shelley’s Ozymandias, in which artistic symbolism, political structures and the ruination of civilisations are intertwined. It’s a ...

Despite a surge in art-as-resistance eight years ago — hailed as crucial in the fight to defeat Trump once and for all — America is back where it started in 2016, give or take a few racist marches, ...

Georgetown is a center of dialogue about art and politics, integrating both of these disciplines through its diverse coursework. The department of art and art history gives students the opportunity to ...

Howardena Pindell had already created the spiraling mess of oranges, yellows, blues, and greens, footprinted with red arrows indicating the path of the swirls, when she realized that the lithograph ...

In the 1930s, when leftist WPArtists covered the walls of quiet rural post offices with murals depicting the horrors of U.S. life, Americans pondered the lesson that even painting can be used for ...

When Joan Baez sang “We Shall Overcome” at the 1963 March on Washington alongside a quarter of a million peaceful protestors, the world stood still for a moment in the face of America’s racial ...

At a Seder at Yale’s protest encampment this spring, students put their arms around each other and swayed. “If we build this world from love, then God will build this world from love,” they sang, ...

Colorful trucks with paintings featuring political leaders that once roamed Pakistan's roads ahead of elections are missing this poll season, replaced mostly by the printing of mass-produced posters ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. The first time the power of art pulled the rug out from under me, I was 19 ...