Art Threat: 23 political art stories from 2011
Washed Up by Alejandro Durán The New Year is officially upon us, but we want to take one last opportunity to look in the rear view mirror. Here are 23 of our favourite stories and projects that took...
View ArticleArt Threat: Call for artists in support of ‘Occupy’ movement – Online,...
Project Lowlives is seeking artists for a global online live presentation of artistic work in support the Occupy movement. Lowlives: Occupy! will take place on March 3, 2012. From the website: The...
View ArticleArt Threat: Crowd sourcing a little curatorial control – National Gallery of...
"Beat Nation" at Grunt Gallery, Vancouver Calling young (aged 16-19) Canadian political artists. Here’s a chance to get your work noticed, publicized and into the National Gallery of Canada (NGC). The...
View ArticleArt Threat: Occupy Museums challenges Armory Show – Artists invited to join...
New York’s prestigious Armory Show opens on March 8th at Piers 92 & 94 in New York. The Armory Show was created in 1913 amid the challenges and excitement of early 20th century avant-garde art and...
View ArticleArt Threat: Artists invited to join Occupy Arts Committee – 3rd gathering in...
Bryant Park, Manhattan. Photo by Eric Walton Montreal artists are invited to join the growing collaboration of the Occupy Arts Committee, a gathering of artists from all disciplines who want to...
View ArticleArt Threat: Big Bang Big Boom: Animated graffiti – An endlessly fascinating...
BIG BANG BIG BOOM – the new wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo. For those who haven’t seen it, Big Bang Big Boom (2010) is yet another fabulous animated graffiti parable from the blublu...
View ArticleArt Threat: Le 22, on ferme! – Artist-run centres across Québec support the...
Over the last month and a half, students across Québec have been mobilising against the dramatic tuition hikes being imposed by the Charest government and education minister Line Beauchamp. Emerging...
View ArticleArt Threat: News Remix: Mar 23 – April1, 2012 – A bricolage of (some of) last...
Nairobi graffiti by artists Uhuru B, Swift, Smokilah and Bankslave Kenyan graffiti artists are painting the walls of Nairobi with reminders of government corruption. Executions are up in the Middle...
View ArticleArt Threat: Ai Wei Wei installs live webcams in home – Artists winks at...
Artist Ai Wei Wei has installed live webcams in his home so that authorities – and worried supporters – can keep track of his day-to-day whereabouts and welfare. Feeling hemmed in by increasingly...
View ArticleArt Threat: Managing Public Art – An interview with the Bryan Newson of...
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas ‘Abundance Fenced’ Bryan Newson is the Manager of the City of Vancouver’s Public Art Program. He and his staff have been responsible for bringing you everything from Ken...
View ArticleArt Threat: Storytelling in post-Mubarak Egypt – Al Jazeera short-doc on...
Al Jazeera’s Artscape presents a wonderful short documentary on Abeer Soliman, an Egyptian storyteller and performance artist whose work changed after the uprising.
View ArticleArt Threat: Art for social justice: 12 remarkable women – Roots to Resistance...
Natalia Estemirova Twelve women. Twelve stories of political courage. Twelve portraits. The Roots to Resistance project is spreading word about the groundbreaking work of twelve women who have...
View ArticleArt Threat: 7th Berlin Binennale highlights political art – Curator Artus...
When you go to the website for Berlin’s 7th Binennale, you encounter a stream of changing photographs from occupy and protest movements from around the world — Venezia, Toronto, Florence, Malacky,...
View ArticleArt Threat: Walking as art to avoid global catastrophe – Review: The Robinson...
Portrait of Patrick Keiller. (Photo: Samuel Drake) It is not always the case that definitive moments in art history can be precisely located. Certainly not the first act of artistic creation, that...
View ArticleArt Threat: Representing Eisenhower – The ongoing dialogue around the design...
I caught wind of a different kind of political art and politics of art this past weekend while reading the latest issue of Vanity Fair. As anyone who’s done any kind of planning in teams can imagine,...
View ArticleArt Threat: Banksy the Olympian
Bansky posted a couple new pieces to his site that comment on the Olympics. It also gives me a great excuse to share my favourite quote of his with you: “The thing I hate the most about advertising is...
View ArticleArt Threat: Brandalism – Taking back public space for public debate
Twenty-four artists, 37 spots, 5 cities, 8 months. While millions of eyes look to London this week, these small numbers come together for a big purpose. Brandalism, a ‘crew’ and project that takes...
View ArticleArt Threat: Blu mural tackles Italy’s Chernobyl
Italian street artist Blu has created a towering critique of the militarization of Sardinia. His latest mural depicts the devastating impact that industrialization and military bases have had on the...
View ArticleArt Threat: Blasphemous maggot artist erects new illegal billboards
Provocative Polish artist Peter Fuss is back with a new pair of guerrilla billboards. Each monochrome board is wallpapered with 36 depictions of an US one-dollar bill, with the text “reasons are still...
View ArticleArt Threat: An art exhibition hidden in plain sight
Street artist JR’s pasted eye watches the corner of Berry St and South 5 in Williamsburg, NY. If you happen to be walking around Williamsburg this month, you’ll likely pass right through the inaugural...
View ArticleArt Threat: The DNA of a public space: The place, history and activism of a...
This is an event for everyone intended to give the homeless and other Montrealers the opportunity to get involved as on-site volunteers and participants in "an incomparable atmosphere of mutual aid and...
View ArticleArt Threat: Art Seen: The Sleepers
Who: Sergio Clavijo What: Les dormeurs / The Sleepers Where: Montreal, Quebec, as part of Art SouTerrain (a literally underground city festival of art) When: Friday, March 1, 2013 Why: The implications...
View ArticleArt Threat: Canadian gov’t approves filming immigration raid, deportation...
The Canadian government has approved what appears to be the crass exploitation of human suffering for entertainment. In a new low, Safety Minister Vic Toews approved the filming of an immigration...
View ArticleArt Threat: Banksy in NYC: highlights from the first two weeks
New Yorkers have spent the past two weeks tripping over themselves as they attempt to locate new Banksy works as they pop up each morning. The British artist is currently halfway through a month-long...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: That Portrait of a Certain Lady: a bargain for Albertans at...
Is this what Alison Redford’s official portrait is going to look like? Below: Ms. Redford as she might have been seen by Pablo Picasso or Gustav Klimt. We can do better, people! VICTORIA, B.C....
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