Brave New Art: Artists and Political Consciousness
Zwelethu Mthethwa, Untitled, 2003
Josephine Meckseper, March on Washington to End the War on Iraq, 9/24/05, 2006
Mircea Cantor, The Spring, 2007
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Join artists Jorge Macchi, Dan Perjovschi, Runa Islam, and Haegue Yang as well as exhibition curators Doryun Chong and Yasmil Raymond for a lively panel discussion focusing on, among other topics, the responsibility of artists in times of political fallout, globalization, and unstoppable technological process.
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