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 ...

A very early adherent to the use of propaganda, John D. Rockefeller had hired the groundbreaking publicist Ivy Lee in June 1914, to help with public relations after a deadly Colorado strike. Lee had ...

Posters by Dyke Action Machine (Carrie Moyer and Sue Schaffner), “Lesbian Americans: Dont Sell Out” (1998) and “Do You Love the Dyke in Your Life?” (1993) (photo by Tiernan Morgan/Hyperallergic) What ...

Immediately upon entering the Great War of 1914 - 1918, President Woodrow Wilson set up The United States Committee on Public Information, America’s propaganda organization, installing George Creel as ...

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 ...

VATICAN CITY – Artist Shen Jiawei’s paintings of Chinese soldiers during the Cultural Revolution were so popular with Mao’s regime that 250,000 copies of his most famous work were made into propaganda ...

Art is art and propaganda is propaganda. Correct? But maybe it’s not that clear cut. George Orwell, the foe of dictators and novelist who gave the world his dystopian fiction, “1984,” observed that ...

HANOI (Reuters) - Much has changed in Vietnamese life in the 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War. The streets of the once-impoverished country now bustle with commerce and young people carry the ...