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Political Artwork archive on Democracy Chronicles
These Political Artwork articles reflect the strong relationship between the arts and politics, particularly between various kinds of art and power, occurs across historical epochs and cultures. As they respond to contemporaneous events and politics, the arts take on political as well as social dimensions, becoming themselves a focus of controversy and even a force of political as well as social change. Also see our main section on Political Art or our extensive articles on World Protest.
Hong Kong Debates Continued Use of Chinese National Anthem
The lyrics of China’s national anthem, “March of the Volunteers,” exhorts citizens to fight the foreign invader
A look at the politics of the newest Judas Priest album: Firepower
Firepower is hitting at a time when the U.S. is grappling with the rise of the “alt-right” and a growth of white power
Why Sierra Leone popstar Emmerson Bockarie is govt enemy No.1
Sierra Leonean popstar has been a thorn in the side of successive governments over his 15-year career
Banksy mural backs jailed Turkish artist Zehra Dogan
British street artist Banksy is now showing solidarity with imprisoned Turkish-Kurdish artist and journalist Zehra Dogan
My New Poetry Collection: A Box of Crazy Toys
Is it possible that anything you can conceive, with any combination of words, can, in the fullness of time, manifest itself materially? Some such thought will be prompted by the reading of any of the 100 liquid landscapes in my surreal collection.
China’s new pro-Xi film is a blockbuster enforced by government
Citizens across China are being corralled into cinemas to watch a propaganda film extolling Xi Jinping
A Minnesota law prohibiting political clothing at polling places
The case in question, Minnesota Voters Alliance v. Mansky, argues that the Minnesotan law prohibiting voters from wearing clothing that supports particular candidates or bears political statements in polling places is unconstitutional.
New Album by Talking Heads frontman offers vision of US utopia
Artists and scholars have been churning out dystopian visions but David Byrne is defiantly chipper
Cartoonist freed after 5 months in Equatorial Guinea prisons
>A cartoonist who was held in custody for more than five months in Equatorial Guinea was released on Wednesday