War Machine is not a great film, but it does convey some important truths to U.S. audiences
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.
VIDEO: Using Poetry to Fight For Sudanese Free Speech
Poetry in a place that regularly ranks towards the bottom in press freedom and free speech
Lebanese Entrepreneur Turns Beirut Slum Into Vast Canvas
For one entrepreneur Beirut’s Ouzai neighborhood is the perfect canvas upon which to paint dreams
Syrian Artist Paints Trump and Other World Leaders as Refugees
Syrian artist Abdalla Al Omari’s “Vulnerability Series” portrays world leaders as refugees
A New Poem For World Refugee Day
Two years ago on World Refugee Day, I published a very personal essay about my status as a refugee child, back then, yet what it is like now for refugees and asylum seekers. Today, I publish my own poem.
Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad
The novel was selected for the Oprah Winfrey Book Club in 2016, was the winner of the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2017 Carnegie Medal of Excellence, and, recently in April, won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
VIDEO: Puerto Rico’s Protest Art Calling for Independence
Street art in Puerto Rico has long channeled frustrations about the island’s century-long status
Congolese Artists Rely on Unusual System of Political Patronage
Why Congo’s poor musicians name-drop powerful people like politicians in their tracks
Chalk Girl: At the Heart of Hong Kong’s Democracy Movement
Chalk Girl was arrested for drawing a chalk flower on a wall where people created protest artworks
Long-Silenced Songs of Holocaust Survivors Are Rediscovered
A long-missing reel of songs has been rediscovered, offering a haunting document of the Holocaust