Connecting Edward Snowden’s revelations about NSA surveillance with inequality, climate change and the “war on terror,” artist Trevor Paglen argues that future administrations will respond to environmental and economic crises with the authoritarian tools of a rising “Terror State.”  More

Investigating the corrosive effects of massive financial contributions to political campaigns, Michelle Marozik’s drawing series “Billionaires and Politicians” profiles elected officials and their wealthy patrons. Here, she shares her portrait of libertarian Congressman Rand Paul.  More

As the G8 discusses the widespread use of offshore tax havens, media artist Paolo Cirio, whose website Loophole4All.com invites visitors to hijack the legal certificates of corporations registered in the Cayman Islands, advocates for more participatory tax reforms.  More

Protests have gripped Turkey for the past two weeks, transforming public space in the minds of the country’s inhabitants. Istanbul-based artist Can Altay explores the role of art and humor in the uprising, writing, “Imagination expands slowly and strikes suddenly.”  More

On Friday, Iran is set to elect a new president to replace Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, four years after the country’s last elections triggered widespread protests and a brutal crackdown. An anonymous artist pays tribute to the Green Movement, its creative forms of subversion and its imprisoned protesters.  More