Uprisings

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  Editor's Letter

  Breaking “OFF”: An Interview With the Organizers of a New Grassroots Biennale in Budapest

  June 22, 2015 - 

  In this month’s Editor’s Letter, Marisa Mazria Katz interviews the founders of Budapest’s OFF-Biennale, who are carving out a space for artists working outside the government-funded scene.  More

  By Marisa Mazria Katz

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  Dispatch

  From Breadlines to Bling: Romania, 25 Years After the Revolution

  December 16, 2014 - 

  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

  By Dan Perjovschi

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  Editor's Letter

  Occupying Empty Houses and Airwaves to Fight Foreclosures in Boston

  July 1, 2014 - 

  As members of the Boston-based community group City Life/Urbana Vida moved a homeless couple into an empty house, a collective of artists and activists including John Hulsey set up a pirate radio station inside the house and organized conversations about housing equity using the frequency of a recently shuttered radio station.  More

  By Marisa Mazria Katz

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  Uprisings

  25 Years After the Tiananmen Crackdown

  June 2, 2014 - 

  To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown, Creative Time Reports presents reflections on China’s 1989 democracy movement from artists involved in the historic exhibition “China: June 4, 1989,” in partnership with the Asian American Writers’ Workshop.  More

  By Zhang Hongtu and Zhao Gang

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  Uprisings

  Comrade Kots:
  A Poem by Kirill Medvedev

  May 6, 2014 - 

  On the anniversary of massive protests in Moscow ahead of Vladimir Putin’s third presidential inauguration, the writer and labor activist Kirill Medvedev shares a poem whose title derives from a nickname he was given by Russia’s secret police agency, the FSB.  More

  By Kirill Medvedev