Art & Politics: All Articles

Documentary Filmmaker William Miles, 82, Brought Lost Chapters of Black History to Life
05/19/2013 — Richard Ware Adams
Reviewing Hannah Arendt, the Movie; Thinking about the Boston Marathon Bombing, Ary Zolberg and Ed Gruson
04/22/2013 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
My Arrest in Poland and the Ironies of Consequence
04/18/2013 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
The Personal and Political Significance of Political Satire
04/03/2013 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
The Upcoming Italian Elections and the Seamy Side of Satire
02/22/2013 — Andrea Hajek
Zero Dark Thirty on Super Bowl Sunday
02/04/2013 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Nancy Mitchnick, Painting Future Past
01/18/2013 — Vince Carducci
The Aesthetics of Civil Society
12/21/2012 — Vince Carducci
Lincoln: Art and Politics
12/03/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
On “Don’t Mess with Big Bird”
10/08/2012 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Riding the Wave of Vibrancy in Banglatown
09/27/2012 — Vince Carducci
Pussy Riot vs. The Pseudo Religious of Eastern Europe
09/04/2012 — Tomasz Kitlinski
Notes on dOCUMENTA (13): Afghanistan and Conclusions
08/20/2012 — Hakan Topal
Notes on dOCUMENTA (13): Artistic Research
08/17/2012 — Hakan Topal
Notes on dOCUMENTA (13): Parks, Nature and Artifact
08/16/2012 — Hakan Topal
Detroit Museum Debates the Future
07/05/2012 — Vince Carducci
Clinton Snider: Painter Among the Ruins of Modernity
06/29/2012 — Vince Carducci
Patti Smith: Photographer in Search of Lost Time
06/20/2012 — Vince Carducci
Specters of the Cass Corridor @ N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art in Detroit
06/11/2012 — Vince Carducci
Washed in Dirt: Steve Hughes’s Stupor
04/25/2012 — Vince Carducci
OWS and the Power of a Photo
04/23/2012 — Luis Tsukayama Cisneros
What Can be Said about Guenter Grass’s “What Must be Said”?
04/11/2012 — Irit Dekel
Scott Hocking’s Garden of the Gods
03/21/2012 — Vince Carducci
The Terror of Important Films: “In Darkness” (Spoiler Alert)
02/27/2012 — Malgorzata Bakalarz
Envisioning Real Utopias in Detroit
02/06/2012 — Vince Carducci
Music, or the Triumph of Technics?
01/19/2012 — Nancy Weiss Hanrahan
Hope against Hopelessness for the New Year
12/30/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Aesthetic Community in Detroit
12/20/2011 — Vince Carducci
Political and Editorial Cartoons: No Laughing Matter
12/14/2011 — Michael Corey
Promesse de Bonheur in Nowhere: Fantasies of Art & Beauty in Israeli and Palestinian Films, Part 2
12/13/2011 — Igal Bursztyn
Promesse de Bonheur in Nowhere: Fantasies of Art & Beauty in Israeli and Palestinian Films, Part 1
12/12/2011 — Igal Bursztyn
Cutting Up: Art in the Age of Electronic Reproduction
12/05/2011 — Vince Carducci
Big Is Beautiful Again in Russia: The Return of the Bolshoi Theater
11/28/2011 — Anna Paretskaya
White Rage and the Riffing Cure: An Analysis of Eminem’s Relapse
11/02/2011 — Lisa Aslanian
“Nine-elevenism” and My Discontents
10/26/2011 — Malgorzata Bakalarz
Heretical Musicology
10/11/2011 — Daniel Goode
Things Come Together: Occupy Wall Street, Solidarity, Elections and Khodorkovsky
10/10/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Sex, Race, and Advertising
10/05/2011 — Malgorzata Bakalarz
White Rage: Eminem, the Bad Boy from Detroit
09/27/2011 — Lisa Aslanian
Against Clichés about Mahler’s Music
09/21/2011 — Daniel Goode
More on Rap: The Matter of Maturity
09/06/2011 — Lisa Aslanian
In Review: On Labor Day
09/05/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
We’ve Been Demoted, Part II
09/01/2011 — Daniel Goode
Rap as News or Art?
08/30/2011 — Lisa Aslanian
We’ve Been Demoted: Reflections of a New Musician
— Daniel Goode
In Review: Cornel West, Barack Obama and the King Memorial
08/27/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
In Review: Democracy and Art for Art Sake (Without Elitism)
08/23/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Beneath the Pavement, the Beach! — Detroit from a Situationist Perspective, Part III
08/19/2011 — Vince Carducci
Beneath the Pavement, the Beach! — Detroit from a Situationist Perspective, Part II
08/18/2011 — Vince Carducci
Beneath the Pavement, the Beach! — Detroit Art from a Situationist Perspective, Part I
08/17/2011 — Vince Carducci
Christopher Hitchens’s Hitch-22: Confessions of a Political Romantic
06/22/2011 — Vince Carducci
Skin in the Game II, Never Forget
06/07/2011 — Michael Corey
May Day’s Ocular Proof: A Bundle of Cloth
05/01/2011 — Cecilia Rubino
The Ocular Proof: Othello and Birth Certificates
04/28/2011 — Paul A. Kottman
On the Assassination of Juliano Mer-Khamis: Fighting for the Freedom of the Everyday
04/11/2011 — Irit Dekel
DC Week in Review: A Post of Laughter and Forgetting
04/08/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Searching for Hope? Look for Bridges with Kapias
04/06/2011 — Elzbieta Matynia
The Art of the Mural: Judy Taylor, Milan Kundera and Jose Clemente Orozco
04/05/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Belaboring the Representation of History in Maine
04/03/2011 — Vince Carducci
DC Week in Review: Art, My Town, and Japan
03/18/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
John Ganis: Ruptures and Reclamations
03/14/2011 — Vince Carducci
The Art of Dead Labor
02/10/2011 — Vince Carducci
Mario Vargas Llosa, The Politics of Gesture in Peru and Beyond
02/03/2011 — Rafael Narvaez
DC Week in Review: Egypt, The State of the Union, Between Past and Future
01/31/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Detroit & the Art of the Commons
01/24/2011 — Vince Carducci
The King’s Speech, the President’s Speech
01/10/2011 — Robin Wagner-Pacifici
Bad Politics = Great Art?
01/06/2011 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Hitler and the Germans: National Community and Crime
12/26/2010 — Irit Dekel
Restrepo: A Constructive Public Airing of Back Stage Moments?
12/17/2010 — Michael Corey
MoMA KIDS: Teaching Art Appreciation
12/12/2010 — Iddo Tavory
Steve Martin’s serious side
12/08/2010 — Jeffrey C. Goldfarb