art

What art looks like in isolation

Tom Kiefer spent years collecting items confiscated and thrown away by border patrol

Cultural work has a key role to play in shaping the climate-friendly economy.

A new exhibit in New York honors the state's labor history.

An artist anticipates the end of the world from an avian perspective.

An artist asks what becoming one with nature could look like.

David A. Holt on his artistry and work with Project Onward, a studio and gallery for artists with disabilities.

Artist Kara Walker uses visual disruption to restore the significance of Black experiences to the Civil War’s legacy.

Michael Rakowitz on his latest exhibition.

Racial policy, hate crimes, immigration, civil rights and national security are all themes that continue to reverberate today.

Your guide to the guides to the resistance.

A new film explores the poet's restless mind and lonely life.

The two congressmen discuss Donald Trump, Ellison's bid for DNC chair and how progressives can actually win.

The HBO drama is a surprisingly astute tale of alienated labor and false consciousness.

Pablo Larrain's Neruda follows the love-poet-cum-Communist-dissident in a cat-and-mouse chase with the Chilean government.

The exhibit After the Fall reveals the radicalism—and other political views—behind much of the decade’s painting.

The Heidelberg Project is being partly dismantled, but hopes to live on as an artistic community.

Organizing artists can be like herding cats. That hasn't stopped WAGE from fighting for fair pay for art.

Molly Crabapple tells In These Times about her new memoir—and true to form, the interview is no-bullshit in tone and global in scope.

Mingering Mike had all the requisites for a legendary music career, except the music.

A performance at PS1 used the Oculus Rift VR headset to explore being a stranded human subjectivity in a commodified world.

Havana closes down an open mic.

Scott Timberg argues that we've lost the scaffolding of middle-class jobs—record-store clerk, critic, roadie—that made creative scenes thrive.

Finally, more of Chris Marker's work is becoming available in the U.S. Here's where to start.

Refugees find safety and inspiration in Beirut.

Want to teach younger people about organizing? Try comic books.

A brilliant new book redraws Gazan history.

A Chicago sidewalk salesman prepares to sue his city.

Veteran punk rocker Ian MacKaye on what has shocked him most during the Bush Era and why Obama gives him hope

An interview with the legendary Afrika Bambaataa

Iran's underground music scene has more followers than ever, largely because Iranian musicians are performing on a new stage: the Internet

Our voices are being drowned out by our peers in the supposedly independent media, like Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore, who calls Starbucks "the new record store," and music journalists like the Chicago Reader's Miles Raymer, who argued in a piece called "In Praise of Selling Out" that the music industry's decline can be "rescued by corporations that make everything but music"

Inkworks Press celebrates a quarter century of political posters, the key to making a visual impact before the Internet's rise

Iraqi artist Wafaa Bilal invited people to shoot him, and got all too many takers

Rising costs, lack of protection, threaten New Orleans' traditional second line marches

Forget "I am not a plastic bag" campaign, Spitalfield's Market is where to find London's genuine eco-friendly fashion

Instead of blaming rappers for vulgarity, social resources should be channeled to combat the conditions that create those lyrics

Art and activism together facilitate a larger discussion of politics and theory while reinspiring activists who are tired of the same old marches

Indie punk band HeWhoCorrupts maximizes profits by eliminating frills like melody or the standard chorus/verse/chorus structure

A new study examines minority youth opinion

Fear and fesitivity in New Orleans

The dub poetry of Linton Kwesi Johnson

Beyonce Knowles's transformation as a pop star exemplifies the quarterlife identity crisis felt by many twenty-somethings.

The Lower Eastside Tenement Museum in New York City is a founding member of the International Coalition of Historic Sites of Conscience.

The movie Jesus Camp by Heidi Ewing and Cahel Grady exposes the terrifying power the Christian Right has to indoctrinate and manipulate children.

According to Anthropologist Thomas de Zengotita, Websites like MySpace and YouTube encourage socializing and self adolation.

A look at the state of black political leadership

Plagarism is running rampant.

Television networks refuse progressive ads more often than conservative ones

Temptations of the West: How to be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet and Beyond is a travelogue by Pankaj Mishra about the shadow of poverty in South Asia.

Women read more fiction than men.

Three decades later, Christopher Lasch's analysis still neatly explains why self-love will tear us apart

Mexican laborers, real superheroes.

Being happy has become commercial, individualized, and barbaric.

Jane Jacobs transformed urban planning