As the United States struggled to know itself during the great depression of the late 1920s and ‘30s, Roosevelt led his New Dealers into a decade of effort to rescue America. What did this mean for ...

Lucho Poletti is brainwashing us all into buying bitcoin! Seriously, this visual artist and self-described “propagandist” considers it his job to create art that propagates the message of the orange ...

The panel at the ‘Art and Propaganda’ talk, moderated by Hyperallergic’s Hrag Vartanian, in conversation with Associate Professor of Art History and Museum Studies, Miriam M. Basilio; artist and half ...

So steeped are we now in technologically sophisticated persuasion — over one million memes of all sorts shared each day on Instagram alone — that viewing the unpolished and sometimes outlandish ...

Larry Weinstein's documentary 'Propaganda: The Art of Selling Lies' examines the connections between propaganda and art. By Frank Scheck Propaganda has a broad definition, and it’s even more broadly ...

Ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Michael Pearce launches a new column for MutualArt, exploring the use of the arts in furthering the interests of regimes or cultural groups. Richard Spitz, Nazi ...

Some years ago, I was in Fez, Morrocco, with my wife Shirley. We had hired a guide and were being escorted through the Medina, the ancient part of the city that had 160,000 inhabitants and no ...

The front page headline, “Art or Propaganda?” (News, April 13), regarding the murals of Iryna Zarutska, the young refugee woman fatally stabbed by a mentally ill man, raises a great question about art ...

The magnitude of misinformation and the atrocities enabled by horrendous people with manipulative marketing prowess are far-reaching and leviathan in their potential. We should watch a documentary ...

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To historicize and culturally process authoritarian thinking can be seen as a form of mimesis—a therapeutic enterprise that provides the means to transfigure pain into amusement through representation ...