
Beach of the Dead
A personal letter to a mentor passed, commemorating her life and the influence she had on generations of artists in New York City.
Sidd Joag is a visual artist, journalist and producer working on issues closely related to social inequality and human rights, and the managing editor at ArtsEverywhere.
A personal letter to a mentor passed, commemorating her life and the influence she had on generations of artists in New York City.
A Zapotec activist from Juchitán, Oaxaca is organizing an indigenous resistance movement to combat violent land appropriation for wind farms and extractive development projects while facing threats to his life.
Oaxaca’s renowned street art is rooted in the political upheaval and months-long protests that enveloped the city in the summer 2006 and cemented a legacy of subversive, underground public art that continues to thrive today.
In a time of unmediated isolation, loss and heartbreak, perhaps rediscovering our artistic passions and tapping our creative impulses can offer some respite.
In a small, nondescript building on the outskirts of Oaxaca, conceptual artist and accountant Edith Morales has created an experimental urban “milpa” garden to study the ancient system of Mixe agriculture and document Oaxaca’s endemic species of maize for future generations.
A longitudinal reflection on politics and creativity, from the author’s birth to the controversial 2020 U.S. election.
Lacking other resources, refugees and others on the move often use writing and reading together to site their politics. ArtsEverywhere editor Siddhartha Joag surveys some examples, from Myanmar to Uganda to Norway and Greece.
Anticipating the chaos and depravity of the 2020 U.S. election, Francisco Goya’s paintings offer a portal to a comparable nightmarish period of human history.
The murder of George Floyd and the momentum of the Black Lives Matter movement sparks memories of police brutality.
Optimistic reflections on the potential of creative practice in counteracting cultural malaise at the onset of the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Just two days shy of the impending October 31st Brexit deadline, an extension to January 31, 2020 now promises to draw contentious debate into the new year.
In the resource rich jungles of Myanmar’s Kachin State, young Kachin students living in internally displaced people’s camps, traumatized by a sixty-year war, are exorcising their psychological demons and preserving their culture through painting and poetry.