STRIKE ART!

Activist art experienced a new beginning in the Seattle anti-globalization protests of 1999, but it didn't reach a zenith until Occu py Wall Street, a movement initiated by artist-activists and structured around performative gestures and iconic imagery for the medi a age. In this moment, activist art and radical ideas briefly invaded the mainstream imagination, and the art world proper opened it s doors--momentarily--to activist art, having been forced to acknowledge its presence. Art critic and historian Yates McKee recounts this tu...[Llegir més]