Creative Engineering at the Protests in Hong Kong
The whole world is watching Hong Kong, where a battle is playing out in the streets between authorities and citizens protesting China’s encroachment on their independence. It started in June in ...
Tag: Political Art
120,000 Fabric Streamers Flutter Above the Former Berlin Wall in Germany
In Berlin, spanning the 450-foot length of the Brandenburg Gate where the former Wall divided the city, a kinetic installation ripples in the wind, bearing hand-written messages from city ...
VIGIL: Jenny Holzer’s Statements on Gun Violence Loom Large at Rockefeller Center
Artist Jenny Holzer is known for making public statements that can’t be ignored, and her latest project brings stark messages about gun violence to the facades of New York City’s Rockefeller ...
Banksy Crashes the Venice Biennale with a Critical Street Stall
Why, Banksy wonders, has he never been invited to the Venice Biennale? Perhaps because they knew he’d do something just like this, invited or not. The elusive British street artist set up an ...
Picnic at the Border: Artist JR Hosts Bi-National Meal at a Giant Table
At one small point on the United States-Mexico border, where two towns named Tecate are separated by a fence, residents of both countries sat down to the same picnic at a gigantic table printed ...
A Toddler Peers Over the US-Mexico Border Fence for JR’s Latest Installation
Set on scaffolding just across the rust-red fence marking the border between Tecate, California and Mexico, street artist JR’s latest installation is a towering statement on immigration issues ...
Murals with a Message: 23 Works of Statement-Making Street Art
Banksy may be the most famous street artist addressing topics like capitalism, war, the refugee crisis and environmental degradation, but he's far from the only one. These political works by a ...
Modern Masters: 10 Installations by Artist & Activist Ai Weiwei
China has incarcerated him, put him on house arrest and made every attempt to shut artist and activist Ai Weiwei up, but they haven’t stopped him from expressing his scathing criticism of the ...
Beyond The Troubles: Murals of Belfast, Northern Ireland
Original article and images by Belfast resident Liam Moore. Belfast, the capital city of Northern Ireland, has been home to some of the worst violence Ireland has endured. The Troubles, ...
