Saturday, April 29 will mark President Donald Trump’s 100th day in office and he has already inspired two exhibitions in Houston. Although the press release for The First 100 Days:…
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Trump’s “Border Wall” Shines Spotlight on EP Women’s Filmmaker Collective
by Paula Newtonby Paula NewtonWhen Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. … They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re…
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Last week, we reported on the confluence of art and advertising in terms of artist-deigned billboards. California-based artist Karen Fiorito falls into this tradition with her recent billboard artwork ridiculing President Donald…
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President Donald Trump released a $1.1 trillion budget outline today, which includes eliminating four independent cultural agencies — the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the National Endowment for the…
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Josue Romero, a 19-year-old Southwest School of Art student and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient was detained this past week, The Guardian reports. Romero was initially stopped by officials…
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Art historian Victoria Coates has been selected by President Trump to be the National Security Council’s Senior Director for Strategic Assessments, reports Hyperallergic. Coates received her master’s degree from Williams…
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Now that the arts are being threatened with defunding, artists, arts organizations and publications are responding to our sociopolitical climate in myriad ways. MoMA reinstalled its permanent collection galleries to feature…
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President Trump recently signed an executive order to bar citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries (Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, Yemen and Iraq) from entering the US. Just hours after the…
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Some Inauguration Day Wisdom from Pussy Riot, from their recent Texas Visit
by Brandon Zechby Brandon Zech"If Trump will be the next president of the United States, which I hope will not happen, the situation in your country will be pretty much close to ours, I think."
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So how am I going to regain my faith in art and the art world in 2017?
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Section of Berlin Wall at Rice University Defaced with Pro-Trump Graffiti
by Glasstireby GlasstireTwo days ago (on Friday the 13th), Rice University students and staff discovered that both a mural and a memorial on campus had been vandalized. The mural, which had been fastened…
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President-elect Donald Trump is not only having a difficult time getting performers to show up at his inauguration, it seems that visual artists are having an equally icky response. Writer…
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A few weeks ago, artists and activists gathered at the corner of Houston and Lafayette streets in New York City for a demonstration called “Dear Ivanka,” appealing to the President-elect’s…
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The Daily Mail reported on Thursday that “sources” had told them that President-elect Donald Trump had approached Stallone about a top arts-related position in his administration, perhaps as chairman of…
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Christina Rees and Brandon Zech on why you don’t even need to leave your house to see some art across the state.
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We don’t value what is good—we value (and are more enthralled by) what seems ‘real.’
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It was recently reported by Hyperallergic that the artist collective T.Rutt was informed it will no longer receive free exhibition space for its Donald Trump protest bus at the Red…
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The battle lines are being incorrectly understood in our personalized Facebook echo chambers: the fight is not between political “progressives” and political “conservatives.”
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Before attending a fundraiser on Friday, Presidential nominee Donald Trump made an impromptu stop at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan, reports MLive.com. Apparently, Trump and…