✊🏿#ArtIsAWeapon
"In times of dread, artists must never remain silent. This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That's how civilizations heal." - Toni Morrison, 2015 essay in "The Nation"
Shout out to the courageous artists who use their creative gifts to resist!
From public murals to museum walls, artists mobilized their practices to call out injustices, expose wrongdoing, and advocate for a better w
🖼✍️🏾 reposted from @hyperallergic Homes on fire as fossil fuels burn. Pro-Palestine protesters jailed. Migrants disappeared from the streets of the United States. Trans individuals persecuted and denied life-saving care. Indigenous people’s rights under threat. There was no shortage of injustices in 2025. Refusing to be desensitized by the perpetual scroll of tragic images and news headlines, artists and creative activists mobilized their mediums in pursuit of change, sometimes risking their own lives and livelihoods.
@valentina.diliscia compiled a decidedly non-comprehensive list of 10 works that spoke truth to power in 2025, which you can find at our link in bio.
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1 & 4 - A visitor with Amy Sherald’s painting “Trans Forming Liberty” (2024) at the Whitney Museum of American Art (photo Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic)
2 - A Banksy mural after being partially removed from a wall of the Royal Courts of Justice on September 11, 2025, in London (photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
3 - A drone view of detainees forming the letters SOS with their bodies in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility in Anson, Texas, April 28, 2025 (© Reuters/Paul Ratje)
5 - Doc Tenzin, “Earth is Heard” (2025) at the Bangkok Art & Culture Centre (photo courtesy the artist)
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