The new Banksy work on Hornsey Road in the Finsbury Park area of London.
EPA-EFE/Neil Hall
Many of those who celebrate Banksy hold contradictory positions on precisely the themes his works seem to address.
In her artwork for the project, Christina Leputla depicted victims of domestic violence fleeing their attacker.
Pain in a thousand stitches; depicting a society where women live in constant fear of being attacked.
Sasha Huber film still from Rentyhorn.
Courtesy the artist and the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma
Sasha Huber’s work often involves renaming colonial landmarks, including a mountain in Switzerland.
Pam Longobardi amid a giant heap of fishing gear that she and volunteers from the Hawaii Wildlife Fund collected in 2008.
David Rothstein
Pam Longobardi collects and documents ocean plastic waste and transforms it into public art and photography. Her work makes statements about consumption, globalism and conservation.
Police officers patrol the entrance of the Tate Modern gallery, in London, Oct. 15, 2022, after climate protesters threw soup over glass covering Vincent van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ in London’s National Gallery.
(AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)
Climate protesters are destabilizing the idea that public galleries are safe spaces for works of art, held in public trust.
Detail of the poster And the People Vote for Nelson Mandela.
Judy Seidman/Medu Art Ensemble
Four decades later, post-apartheid South Africa barely recalls the Medu Art Ensemble’s contributions to the liberation struggle. But that could be changing.
El Saadawi protesting on her 80th birthday.
In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images
To understand her contribution to public debate, it’s important to see her in the context of the historical moment that made her work possible, necessary and provocative.
Small signs, big questions and a fabulous wardrobe. How the world’s most famous doll is calling out art’s deeply entrenched male bias.
FKS.
Eva and Franco Mattes
From Fukushima to a stalkers visual diary, art can be confrontational whether it’s far away or uncomfortably close