American Politics

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A group exhibition at the MCA Denver challenges our conceptions of what it means to be a US citizen 

 

BY Annie Armstrong |

The plan to codify a ‘classical architectural style’ for US federal buildings has become the latest front in the American culture wars

BY Will Wiles |

As the artist has his major retrospective at Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, he speaks about his art historical influences and pet peeves 

BY Adam Heardman |

With the Menil Drawing Institute opening on the eve of the US midterm elections, what Houston says about the future of the country

BY Evan Moffitt |

A recent spate of TV shows set in Missouri show the state as a cultural imaginary on the fault line of US political debate

BY Ian Bourland |

In New York, a so-called ‘exhibition’ at a ‘museum’ featuring 30 ‘artists’? Dan Fox uncovers the truth behind this dangerously timely show

BY Dan Fox |

The work of John Hanson, Rob Nilsson and Fred Lonidier establishes a dialectic between a leftist melancholy and a more forward-looking politics

BY Andrew Durbin |

In times of political turmoil, art is a necessary rebuke to escapism

BY Negar Azimi |

Landing only months before the US midterm elections, it’s impossible not to understand the show foremost in the context of the Trumps and Kushners of the world

BY Ian Bourland |

How will the Black Panther writer, known for his landmark critical assessments of race, take on the quintessential symbol of Americana?

BY Julian Chambliss |

Artist Andrea Fraser’s 2016 in Museums, Money and Politics lifts the lid on US museum board members and political funding

BY Rafia Zakaria |

How documentary filmmakers are experimenting with historical narratives to better understand the present

BY Jessica Loudis |

From credit scores to algorithmic policing, Jackie Wang’s Carceral Capitalism reveals technocracy as not merely analytical, but predictive

BY Steven Zultanski |

Each piece of protest art picturing Trump is a joke arisen from shallow trauma

BY Jonathon Sturgeon |

Should Trump have won an Emmy?

BY Ronald Jones |

Public debate around Confederate insignia has little to do with historical fact, and everything to do with collective memory

BY Julian Chambliss |

The removal of the Confederate monuments in Baltimore shows decisiveness after years of inaction – already they stand as sites of counter-memory

BY Ian Bourland |

Dan Fox looks at the work of Mark Bradford, who represents the US at this year’s Venice Biennale

BY Dan Fox |

Exhibitions from, or about, the past that help make sense of the present 

BY Sam Thorne |

How should artists respond to the recent trend for trolling in the political arena?

BY Jörg Heiser |