Published: June 10, 2025; Aithor: Julia Sonrisa
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Please join us on Saturday, June 21, at Artbook @ MoMA PS1 Bookstore for the launch of Lauren O’Neill-Butler’s The War of Art: A History of Artists’ Protest in America, published by Verso. To celebrate, O’Neill Butler will be in conversation with Annie Ochmanek.
Join us in person or livestream on Instagram at @artbookps1!
Order copies on the website.
Based upon in-depth oral histories with the key figures in these movements, and illustrated throughout, The War of Art is an essential corrective to the idea that art history excludes politics. Artists in America have long battled against injustices, believing that art can, in fact, “do more.” The War of Art tells this history of artist-led activism and the global political and aesthetic debates of the 1960s to the present. In contrast to the financialized art market and celebrity artists, the book explores the power of collective effort, from protesting to philanthropy, and from wheat pasting to planting a field of wheat.
Time: 4:00-6:00 pm EST
Free!
Detailed information and discussion of the event.