How Did a Banksy West Bank Mural End Up at an Israeli Gallery?
In 2007, the British street artist Banksy painted a rat with a slingshot in the West Bank, ostensibly to protest the Israeli occupation of Palestine. He spray-painted the work on...
LGBTQ+ Art, Literature, and Historical Ephemera Up for Auction at Swann
“Homosexuals are American Citizens Also” sign from Philadelphia’s Annual Reminder march, 1969, ink on cardboard, 27 3/4 x 22 inches Swann Galleries’s LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History sale is...
Polish Museum Implores Visitors to Stop Having Sex on Its Premises
Entrance to the Eastern Fort Museum of Fort Gerhard in Poland (via Wikimedia Commons) Wandering a museum can stir up all kinds of emotions. With history on display across cavernous...
Where poetry is labelled extremism
Ranil Wickremesinghe, now president of Sri Lanka, attending a presentation at the Annual Meeting 2017 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 17, 2017. Photo: World Economic Forum/ Mattias...
Fighting tyranny with poetry: Myanmar’s silenced voices
People protest in Myanmar against the military coup in 2021. Photo: Htin Linn Aye The last time a political activist was hanged in Myanmar was in 1976, when the ethnic...
Remembering the political prisoners executed in Myanmar
Phyo Zayar Thaw gives a speech in Myanmar during a protest in 2021. Photo: Maung Sun Kyaw Min Yu and Phyo Zayar Thaw were prominent voices in the democracy movement...