Tag: arts are political

• October 20, 2020

  Chicago Humanities Festival’s Art in the Moment

  I wrote about the Chicago Humanities Festival’s Art in the Moment panel, a co-production of the Terra Foundation for American Art’s Art Design Chicago Now and the CHF, for Third Coast Review. I did not, of course, mention there that I cried my way through the panel: it was, and is, deeply moving—perhaps especially to […]
• February 16, 2017

  Art & Politics: An Introduction

  Periodically, things go the rounds on social media, promising to break up the monotony of our dinners, or bad dates, or, now, our political postings, with art and music! Because who doesn’t want to see art and music in their timeline, amirite?! I mean, how could I argue with this? Art is beautiful! I have […]