A Dodge Super Bowl ad has attracted criticism for its use of a sermon by Martin Luther King Jr. to sell trucks
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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.
The 20th-Century Jewish Exodus Map You Have Never Seen Before
As far as I can tell, there is no map that shows the geographic extent of the exodus of Jewish people in the 20th Century. I decided it couldn’t be too hard to make my own.
A new Lebanese historical film has become a national obsession
Many called for film “The Insult” to be banned. Jordan and the seven Persian Gulf countries complied.
Thai students protest corruption using banners and caricature puppets
Military rule has sparked a spate of creative protests that are challenging the junta’s stranglehold on dissent
Iraqi book culture returns to ruins of post-war Mosul
Literary cafes, poetry readings and pavement bookstalls — Mosul’s cultural scene is back in business
After Putin-in-bullets, Exiled Ukrainian artists coin Trump
They shot to fame in 2015 with a portrait of Vladimir Putin made of bullet shells from the killing fields of eastern Ukraine. Now, the two Ukrainian artists are back with a portrait of Donald Trump made from coins and poker chips. Threats forced Daria Marchenko, 35, and Daniel Green, 34, to leave their homeland […]
Meet the anti-Trump artist projecting messages onto his D.C. hotel
Robin Bell, multimedia artist and Trump foe, regularly projects messages onto the facade of Trump International Hotel
Zambian Hip-Hop Artist Flees Amid Threats Over Song
Rapper Fumba Chama is known as Pilato, an acronym he says, for “People in Lyrical Arena Taking Over.”
Randy Newman’s satirical Putin song wins Grammy
Sardonic songwriter Randy Newman picked up his latest Grammy for a sarcastic tune about Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Literary fiction is indispensable to North Korea’s propaganda machine
One of the more illuminating forms of North Korea’s propaganda is the regime’s state-produced fiction