The artist Mel Chin speaks to the uncanny experience of witnessing a VIP-only Miley Cyrus performance at Art Basel – Miami Beach as the Eric Garner grand jury decision provoked street protests across the nation.  More

In December 1989 street protests toppled Romania’s Communist regime, establishing a liberal democracy in the place of Nicolae Ceaușescu’s notorious dictatorship. Dan Perjovschi’s witty drawings depict the bittersweet transition from poverty and scarcity to a consumerist society.  More

The Y2K scare did not culminate in disaster, but it did bring to light our precarious dependence on technology. Mining his archive of Y2K ephemera, the artist Perry Chen showcases the media, cultural phenomena and thinkers that revealed our anxieties about an intricately networked world.  More

Sound artist Matana Roberts, musician Me’shell Ndegeocello and poet Staceyann Chin share a song of protest as activists fill the streets of U.S. cities, demanding police accountability.  More

Only 10 percent of arts graduates make a living from their creative practice. Artist William Powhida maps the institutional structures that keep most artists broke, and shares strategies for spreading the wealth.  More