Art Threat - Political Art JournalArt Threat - Political Art JournalArt Threat is a journal of political art. We embrace art that confronts, interrogates, or even shrugs off the status quo, and explore pressing issues affecting art and culture, stimulating debate on the world around us and how it is interpreted. Articles
The Noise of Cairo explores art in revolution
2012-01-05 20:04:00 This documentary film chronicles the Cairo art scene after the 2011 Egyptian revolution. More About: Screen , Revolution
23 political art stories from 2011
2012-01-02 03:39:00 Our favourite stories and projects that took place in the world of political art in 2011. More About: Screen , Design , Political , Stories , Word
Christmas Time This Year - Happy holidays from us and Ry Cooder
2011-12-25 20:07:00 On this Christmas Day, we'd like to wish you and those you love a most wonderful holiday season. More About: Holidays , Happy Holidays , Time , Sound
Art and inspiration meet on Montreal streets
2011-12-25 01:47:00 Art is a key element of the intensely complex collective identity that stretches across the beautiful island city of Montreal . More About: Inspiration , Policy , Meet
Looking for the Political at Art Basel
2011-12-19 16:11:00 The politics at Art Basel , one of the largest contemporary art exhibitions in the US, may be hard to find, but they’re there for those who know where to look. On December 4th Karen Rosenberg wrote an article in the New York Times (entitled ?Art Basel: Business Over Activism?) highlighting the lack of political art ... More About: Reviews , Performance , Political , Editorial
Volkswagen bends to critique, pulls sexist ad
2011-12-16 22:08:00 Volkswagen Canada has pulled the 2011 Passat TV ad ?It pretty much sells itself? from its official YouTube channel and from TV rotation, including a prominent pre-roll spot on CBC News. Judging from Volkswagen Canada’s official Twitter account, the decision to pull the ad was in response to a critique I published last week on ... More About: Volkswagen
Not a cool time to be Canadian - Friday Film Pick: Everything's Cool
2011-12-16 20:25:00 On Monday the Canadian government officially announced the very unpopular decision to withdraw from Kyoto, furthering Canada’s status as eco-pariah on the international stage while reinforcing the massive chasm that exists between Canada’s citizens and its Conservative government. Stephen Harper’s Conservatives won a majority in last year’s election despite the fact that less than 40% ... More About: Screen , Film , Time , Cool
Help fund new doc about a rebel poet - Friday Film Pick: Alice Walker - Bea
2011-12-09 19:28:00 Help fund a new documentary about poet activist and author Alice Walker. More About: Screen , Film , Indie , Friday , Rebel
Why is CBC running sexist Volkswagen ads?
2011-12-07 11:00:00 An ad for the 2011 Volkswagen Passat is shocking viewers with its blatant sexism. More About: Running
Russia co-opts radical shock art - Kremlin and mass media seek to depolitic
2011-12-05 19:50:00 A look at Voina, the daring Russian art collective that has been oppressed by the state and largely ignored by mainstream press. More About: Media , Performance , Shock , Features , Editorial
Voina member arrested, whereabouts unknown - Russian art collective faces o
2011-12-05 19:13:00 Yesterday, founding member of the Russian art collective Voina, Leonid Nikolaev, was abducted by Russian police and his whereabouts are unknown. Nikolaev was attending a rally against election fraud in St. Petersburg when he was grabbed by police along with other protesters and taken away. Over 70 people were arrested, among them other well-known activists ... More About: Arrested , Performance , Faces , Editorial
Pepper spray cop serenaded by Shearer - Monday Music: Ballad of the Pepper
2011-12-05 11:00:00 Harry Shearer takes on UC Davis' Pepper Spray Cop in a ballad he recorded and released on the web. More About: Music , Monday
Help fund Project Homophobia film - Friday Film Pick: The Boy Next Door
2011-12-02 18:13:00 Gregor Schmidinger’s 2008 short film The Boy Next Door has received its share of positive attention, and to date, has had over 52,000 viewings on Vimeo. The film, while mildly suffering a few stilted moments between adult and child actors, is a well-executed narrative fragment about a male prostitute, his client and his client’s son, ... More About: Film , Project , Friday , Fund
Avengers comics spoof sexualizes the guys
2011-12-01 11:00:00 Women in today's comics are sexualized to absurd proportions. More About: Comics , Guys , Spoof
Seeking alternatives to Quebec hydropoly - A review of Seeking the Current
2011-12-01 00:23:00 As important as environmental documentaries are, it?s difficult not to tire of watching the ?go green or risk oblivion? narrative play out again and again. So when I read the synopsis of Seeking the Current , I was a bit apprehensive. But Nicolas Boisclair and Alexis de Gheldere?s documentary is far from routine as it manages ... More About: Screen , Reviews , Quebec , Review
Handpicked from the Internets
2011-11-28 19:05:00 Cleaning out the digital mailbag this morning, I found a few gems pertaining to the Occupy movement, economic collapse, and intentionally bad, prizewinning art: Salon asks how the appalling image of U.C. Davis’ infamous pepper spray cop became a hilarious internet meme that parades through art history. “When I was writing V for Vendetta I ... More About: The Internets , Et Cetera
Propaganda and consumption - Friday Film Pick: Outfoxed & Wal-Town
2011-11-25 19:54:00 This week’s Friday Film Pick is a double bill, commemorating two important moments. Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism is a pick that commemorates the recent poll published by Fairleigh Dickinson University showing that Fox TV news viewers are actually less-informed about world events than those who do not watch any news at all. The ... More About: Screen , Propaganda , Wal-Mart
Oscar short list for best doc comes up short - List of fifteen films is mis
2011-11-23 19:03:00 Check out the short list for best documentary for the 2012 Academy Awards - what's missing? More About: Films , List , Oscar
Two docs explore violence & resistance - Tales from the G20 & End:Civ compl
2011-11-21 23:24:00 A review of two films that look at divergent resistance tactics. More About: Screen , Reviews , Toronto , Violence , Tales
Controversial adverts orally arouse - Kissing pope and cigarette fellatio a
2011-11-17 17:55:00 Fellatio-smoking and world leader necking are problem ad campaigns for some. More About: Kissing , Advertising , Controversial , Pope
Music Monday: Factory Floor - Free download of new song by folk artist Chri
2011-11-15 05:23:00 Listening to Chris Ronald’s “Factory Floor” makes me think of brown eyed girls working in clothing factories in third-world countries. The easy folk music reaches from a time when factory work was regular for north Americans to present day when such labour has been sent overseas, granting us the privilage to be an information economy ... More About: Music , Artist , Download , Song
The best anti-war film ever made - Friday Film Pick: Come and See
2011-11-11 21:08:00 For Remembrance Day watch Klimov's classic anti-war film COME AND SEE. More About: Screen , Film , Anti-War , Friday , Made
New Nordic Documentary Cinema - Identity and belonging made visible
2011-11-09 19:50:00 To describe the topic of Nordic documentary cinema as unexplored would be an understatement. More About: Cinema , Documentary , Made
Litter made lovely: Washed Up - New photographs by Alejandro Durán
2011-11-08 13:20:00 Alejandro Durán’s photographs are so intriguing they almost make me think that littering is a great idea. That is, until I realize that the beauty in waste has only been found through his selective eye and thoughtful arrangements. The colourful waste items of Durán?s project, Washed Up, addresses the issue of pollution that has made ... More About: Photographs , Made
Lesbian art attack - The picks from Autostraddle's NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday
2011-11-07 01:38:00 The amazing crew at Autostraddle have compiled a slew of Lesbo art for all to peruse and politic upon, including a full-on gallery, list of installations, documentaries and more. There’s really no need to say more, you can go to our favourite feminist lesbian site if you feel inclined (or reclined). Happy lesbosexy Sunday . Image: ... More About: Lesbian , Et Cetera
Remember Burma? - Friday Film Pick: Happy World
2011-11-04 17:06:00 A short while back, Bryan Farrell, who also writes for WagingNonviolence, told Slate readers about a short web doc called “Happy World .” A peak inside the bizarre dictatorship currently gripping Burma, the doc blends satire and observation to reveal the absurdity of the ongoing regime. The film lacks real analysis, but is a solid compendium ... More About: Screen , Film , Friday
Engaged devotion and care - The terrariums of Paula Hayes
2011-11-01 13:22:00 It might be because I just started paying attention, but it seems to me that terrariums are on the rise. These delicate glass globes filled with tiny gardens are like nature sent to earth from space. As we become more aware of our impact on the environment, it?s almost as through we have taken a ... More About: Engaged , Care , Devotion , Et Cetera
Us and Them - Dialogue meets theatre in this look at how we create "the oth
2011-11-01 02:29:00 Footage flickers from the Vancouver Stanley Cup riots. It looks like everyone is angry and no one knows why. Green and blue jersey wearing rioters cover the backdrop of the stage of the Cultch as six actors lurch, kick, destroy, and vent frustration that we all suspect has very little to do with hockey. It ... More About: Theatre
10 documentary films on capitalism and economics
2011-10-29 00:16:00 Ten great docs that bring context to the Occupy Wall Street movement. More About: Economics , Films , Documentary , Capitalism
Put the Pocahontas back on the rack - Ethnic Halloween costumes challenged
More articles from this author:2011-10-27 16:56:00 Racist Halloween costumes aren't all the rage this year, thankfully. More About: Ohio , Policy , Back , Ethnic , Rack 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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