About halfway through the opening day of Art Basel’s fair in Switzerland, the dealer Larry Gagosian was sitting on a bench ...

At this year’s edition of Art Basel, European arts leaders worried about tariffs, whether to loan their art and if they needed to re-evaluate their relationships with American institutions.

Having to. And I don’t know what’s on the other side of that.” Lindsay is no stranger to explicitly political art. In 2017, the Imaginists presented Stop That Show!, a bicycle-powered, bilingual ...

A richly extensive retrospective, “On Conformity” comprises 175 items: paintings, prints, photographs, posters, vintage ...

See how artists have shaped politics and politicians have failed to stop them. Art and politics may seem like mortal enemies, but they’re more like best frenemies forever. In this episode of ...

Art holds a storied place in the long history of political and social resistance. Enslaved and formerly enslaved Africans were denied education in America and thus unable to communicate through ...

Just a little over fifty years ago, I wanted to read the most challenging new art history writing. And so I purchased T. J. Clark’s first two books: The Absolute Bourgeois: Artists and Politics ...

This is all to say the realms of politics and art have merged many times in human history and continue to be relevant to our society. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to most readers, of course, but ...

If the American electorate is not careful, a new form of political art may trump election integrity and workers’ rights None of it was real. Swift has not endorsed any candidate in the 2024 ...

Monica is a Newsweek reporter based in Boston. Her focus is reporting on breaking news. Monica joined Newsweek in 2024. She is a graduate of Clark University, with a master's from both Clark ...

It was an intense, throbbing conviction in the power of art to influence politics, one that soon coalesced into something like a battle plan. Could we change the outcome of the 2016 election?

Contrary to much popular belief, all art is not political. But in the first half of the 20th century—when Germany was experiencing rapid industrialization and militarization; the rise of ...