Pozzallo Pirates: The Belgian artist who made headlines with his installation designed to raise awareness about the plight of Mediterranean migrants. A Belgium artist has created an installation that serves as a wake-up call for Northern Europe: the immigrants who …
THE RESTITUTION STRUGGLE: MALAISE, INDIFFERENCE, AND FRUSTRATION
William D. Cohan, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and at ARTnews, is the author of the forthcoming The Price of Silence: The Duke Lacrosse Scandal, Wall Street, and the Power of the Elite. Decades after the effort began, …
Politicisation of Aesthetics / Aestheticisation of politics
In the 1930s, one of the core Frankfurt School members Walter Benjamin, introduced an idea of “politisation of aesthetics”, the notion of the impossibility to separate art and beauty from ideology. He also contemplated on “aestheticisation of politics”, a situation …