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Lights, camera, propaganda

Whenever a scene is ready to be immortalised on film, an old tradition is followed. The director calls 'Lights, Camera, Action'. Yet for nearly a decade, this tradition has been radically altered ...
A number of 2025 movies and shows tried to convey this idea from new perspectives, in exaggerated fictional versions of the ...
Nicole Eisenman’s latest exhibition builds on a long tradition of artists using their work to speak out against fascism and ...
Baroque art was propaganda for the state or for the Church. Baroque art was propaganda — for the state or for the Church. It inspired the masses to believe that the authority of the prince and the ...
From Trump as a Sith Lord to AI-generated deportation scenes, the far right has embraced artificial imagery faster than ...
You may be familiar with the works of Thomas Hart Benton, the Neosho, Mo.-born painter and muralist who became part of the Regionalist movement in the 1930s and '40s. The son of a congressman, Benton ...
Michael Mertens, Susanne Freytag, Ralf Dörper, and Claudia Brücken of Propaganda. (Credit: Peter Brown) Imagine an album that opens with a singer reciting an Edgar Allan Poe poem in an exotic Germanic ...
As New York welcomes its first Muslim and South Asian mayor, Zohran Mamdani, his wife, artist Rama Duwaji, offers a powerful visual narrative. Her art, blending Islamic geometry with contemporary ...
Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art and the Brick opened MONUMENTS last week, an exhibit that reflects on the removal and recontextualization of decommissioned monuments. Two of the ...