An economic and political system that favors private ownership, capitalism has sparked some profoundly creative pushback. In abandoned bank buildings, failed urban development projects and public squares, we discover artists and their communities in the U.S., Western Europe, South America, and Greece taking on the challenge—as whistleblowers, catalysts, educators, moneymakers, evangelicals, and documentarians.
For our Playlist series, Miami-based artist Eddie Arroyo introduces The Art of Capitalism episode from 2018. Listen to find out what art has to say about our careening global economy.
Today, capitalism, also known as “the free market,” is linked to trade wars, massive student debt, entire countries going bankrupt, burgeoning virtual currencies and coded…
Thank You for Listening! Here are the TOP FIVE Fresh Art International audio programs of 2017! In these conversations, we talk about feminist art, the history of current global…
Occupy Museums is an art activist movement that grew out of Occupy Wall Street in 2011—a prolonged demonstration in Zuccotti Park, in New York City’s Wall…
Social commentary holds sway in the 2017 Whitney Biennial, the first of the bi-annual surveys of American art to unfold in the museum’s new downtown building. Curators…