Save the date for next meeting of the Art & Class Discussion Club: 4pm on Saturday, May 10 13th Avenue in East Oakland Exact location details will be sent closer to the date. Thanks very much to Kathy Sloane for…
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G.U.L.F. (Global Ultra Luxury Faction) Protest at the Guggenheim
“Migrant workers in labor camps! Is this the future of art?” Then a single voice called out: “The Guggenheim Museum has a museum empire. The Guggenheim should not be on the wrong side of history.” After about 20 minutes of…
Art & Class Frontline:Columbian Artist Oscar Murillo
28 year-old Columbian-born painter, Oscar Murillo, is hard at work on the front lines of art and class. “For his forthcoming show at David Zwirner — a comment on immigration titled “Oscar Murillo: A Mercantile Novel” — he hopes to…
United in Anger
Link TV is currently hosting the complete documentary film United in Anger about the provocative, visually stunning, grassroots, direct-action work of ACT UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power). You can stream it here for free. “United in Anger combines…
Angela Davis on Democracy Now!
Activist and UC Santa Cruz Professor Emerita Angela Davis was on Democracy Now! this week speaking about prison abolition, the war on drugs and why social movements shouldn’t wait for President Obama. “How does one address the needs of prisoners…
Extraordinary Communities
“This is a paradise of rising to the occasion that points out by contrast how the rest of the time most of us fall down from the heights of possibility, down into diminished selves and dismal societies. Many now do…
The One and the Many Continued
“This assumption of the intrinsically repressive nature of collective experience and redemptive power of individuation is a staple of contemporary art theory and criticism. I would argue that a closer analysis of collaborative and collective art practices can reveal a…
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San Francisco State Hosts Author Ben Davis
The Bay Area Society for Art & Activsm is please to announce that San Francisco State University’s DocFilm Institute is hosting a private, filmed conversation with author & art critic Ben Davis. 7 pm November 21, 2013 Studio Theater, Creative…
Contemporary Collaboration in a Global Context
“Collaborative and collective art practices have proliferated around the world over the past fifteen years. In The One and the Many, Grant H. Kester provides an overview of the broader continuum of collaborative art, ranging from the work of artists…
The Open Moment
EMERGENCY USA and Thoreau Center for Sustainability present The Open Moment – an exhibition considering the social, economic, personal, and political ramifications of conflict curated by Leila Grothe. Exhibition runs through January 10, 2014 Opening Reception: Thursday, November 14, 5-8pm…
