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Art—Making a Difference

By RANDY MARTIN
Published: Issue 1, Summer 2009

Many are the varieties of arts politics. Work displays a range of political affiliation and commitment. Artists self-organize to devise myriad means for getting their work into the world. Artists parlay their celebrity to access the public domain and to address various issues of the day. And yet it is often the uninvited controversy that attend to works—especially when public funding is involved—that frame the terms by which art is rendered into the domain of the political. [...]