The line between art and propaganda can be hard to draw. For many of us, Pablo Picasso’s Guernica, a mourning of the wanton destruction of Francisco Franco’s Spain, is a long way from Leni Riefenstahl ...

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 ...

Baroque art was propaganda for the state or for the Church. Baroque art was propaganda — for the state or for the Church. It inspired the masses to believe that the authority of the prince and the ...

You may be familiar with the works of Thomas Hart Benton, the Neosho, Mo.-born painter and muralist who became part of the Regionalist movement in the 1930s and '40s. The son of a congressman, Benton ...

Several works of art, books, theatre, and films are often called propaganda. How exactly would you define propaganda? Asim Siddiqui: In an absolute sense, you can say that all art is propaganda. That ...

The Department of Homeland Security is accused of sharing thinly-veiled nativist propaganda on social media through art as it pursues a sweeping campaign of mass deportations. Throughout July, the X ...

The age-old question of whether works created with explicit ideological intent can achieve artistic greatness has long divided critics, artists, and audiences. From Leni Riefenstahl’s films glorifying ...