Posted 03.15.2012
If you're ever touring the warm Spanish city of Madrid, you may get a little parched. That is because about 50% of the city's public drinking fountain...
Posted 02.23.2012
We can imagine few things better than a world full of street art. With murals flowing around every street corner and massive designs inhabiting the...
Posted 02.20.2012
Nina Chanel Abney paints vibrant multicultural murals with disjointed narratives that confuse and delight. With a bold palette and bolder sense of hum...
Posted 02.06.2012
During Ivan Navarro's childhood in Santiago, Chile, power outages were used as political threats. Because of this history, light plays a complicated r...
Posted 01.03.2012
Some of us celebrate the new year by popping champagne, planting a kiss or setting off a party popper. Voina, a radical Russian art group, rang in 201...
G. Roger Denson | Posted 02.26.2012
When does the Left become fascist? Do art and entertainment arrest revolutions? These aren't trick questions.
Posted 12.27.2011
For Zhang Huan's largest solo exhibition to date at the reopened Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai, the venerable Chinese artist decides to tackle the f...
Posted 12.13.2011
On Monday morning, the last remnant of Occupy Calgary was lifted onto the back bed of a truck and moved to an undisclosed location. The Occupy sculptu...
Paul Boden | Posted 02.06.2012
Can political art change the world?
G. Roger Denson | Posted 02.02.2012
Most demarcations of historical epochs are necessarily vague. Not this one.
G. Roger Denson | Posted 01.31.2012
Two paintings show us how identity and freedom are the central human conditions governing the quality of a life.
Posted 11.18.2011
An upcoming documentary, 'Art as a Weapon,' will allow viewers access into the closed country of Burma, and illuminate the intersection of street art,...
G. Roger Denson | Posted 01.18.2012
Should Rivera be considered a patron saint of the Occupation movements, as some have alluded? Not quite.
Posted 01.11.2012
The Occupy Movement has its fair share of accidental activists, people without political backgrounds who feel a human obligation to take action. Alex ...
Posted 01.02.2012
The rebellious Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been grabbing headlines over his ongoing dispute with the Chinese government, but his latest flood of atte...
nytimes.com | ANDREW JACOBS | Posted 01.01.2012
BEIJING -- Ai Weiwei, the dissident artist whose secret detention earlier this year stirred an international outcry, has been given two weeks to pay $...
Posted 12.19.2011
We've seen Robin Williams tackle quite a few roles throughout the years: cross-dressing nanny, fast-talking genie, that guy who invented flubber and n...
Posted 11.26.2011
In his new exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum, notorious trickster-activist Ai Weiwei playfully approaches serious subject matter. The sho...
Robbie Conal | Posted 10.30.2011
After Obama was elected, Deb (movie title & print designer extraordinaire, my co-conspirator and wife) & I thought we were experiencing a little shift...
The Huffington Post | Travis Korte | Posted 06.25.2011
Thousands of protestors took to the streets this weekend to protest the continued detainment of artist Ai Weiwei. The demonstrations, held in the some...
The Huffington Post | Travis Korte | Posted 06.20.2011
Curators have a lot to say about the new Joan Miró exhibition at London's Tate Modern. In the video below, journalist Will Gompertz asks Tate Modern ...
TIME | Posted 06.12.2011
On Sunday, artist Ai Weiwei -- best known for helping design the "Bird's Nest" Olympic stadium in Beijing -- was detained by Chinese authorities as pa...
ARTINFO | Posted 05.25.2011
DUBAI-- A little boy holds a kite reel; next to him, a girl holds the kite's string as another flings her arms up to the kite in the hope of catching ...
Posted 05.25.2011
WHO: Dan Bayles WHAT: CONTRACT-W914NS-04-D-0009 WHEN: December 18 - February 5 2011 WHERE: François Ghebaly Gallery 2600 S. La Cienega Blvd., Los...
G. Roger Denson | Posted 05.01.2012