https://www.wsws.org/en/topics/artsCategory/essayshttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/11/21/vqnp-n21.htmlSeventy-four extraordinary works are on display during an exclusive exhibition in Detroit.Mon, 21 Nov 2022 23:58:55 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/85adf1f5-bc4d-4675-b381-fadd9774767L/vqnp-n21.html2022-11-21T23:58:55Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/09/20/ilak-s20.htmlHunt was one of last surviving victims of the Hollywood blacklist of the late 1940s and early 1950s. Never a Communist Party member, she nonetheless became identified with opposition to the vicious witch-hunting in the film industry.Tue, 20 Sep 2022 02:11:41 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/ff82ecb2-3561-49ee-b504-4db9991c25fA/ilak-s20.html2022-09-20T02:11:41Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/02/28/talk-f28.htmlThis talk was given in Chicago and in Ann Arbor and Kalamazoo, Michigan, in late 2017 and early 2018 to mark the centenary of the October Revolution.Wed, 28 Feb 2018 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/4eff36bb-6de9-4341-aef2-db4eb62af80O/talk-f28.html2018-02-28T05:00:00Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/04/27/sdsu-a27.htmlThis is an edited version of a talk given at San Diego State University on April 18 by WSWS arts editor David Walsh. Audio of the talk is included.Thu, 27 Apr 2017 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/d93b271c-8b8e-44cb-89fb-12934febffbF/sdsu-a27.html2017-04-27T05:00:00Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/04/22/sdsu-a22.htmlThe WSWS arts editor spoke to an audience of 70 students and workers on the current crisis in arts and culture from a Marxist perspective. His talk was followed by a lively discussion.Sat, 22 Apr 2017 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/9579b5ac-7e04-4933-9184-78d7a1b2a0dL/sdsu-a22.html2017-04-22T05:00:00Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/05/31/awr1-m31.htmlThis talk was given by WSWS arts editor David Walsh at San Diego State University, University of California Berkeley, and University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in April and May.Tue, 31 May 2016 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/6dafb3f8-6416-44d3-8eb8-eaffd89bd17B/awr1-m31.html2016-05-31T05:00:00Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/01/27/sky1-j27.htmlWSWS arts editor David Walsh gave a talk in Detroit recently to SEP members and supporters to mark the publication of The Sky Between the Leaves.Mon, 27 Jan 2014 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/63b1f75e-2cf9-4786-9906-9c1d3798a45J/sky1-j27.html2014-01-27T05:00:00Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/09/17/diat-s17.htmlWe are posting today an edited version of a talk given by WSWS Arts Editor David Walsh to a June 13 meeting on the threat to the Detroit Institute of Arts.Tue, 17 Sep 2013 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/d2636b63-1adc-46a0-9a5b-1b102b459edM/diat-s17.html2013-09-17T05:00:00Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2010/11/cine-n10.htmlWSWS arts editor David Walsh recently spoke at the University of Salford in the Greater Manchester area in the UK.Wed, 10 Nov 2010 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/256424e8-2e21-4448-955b-a60e75a1d30C/cine-n10.html2010-11-10T05:00:00Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2010/10/pers-o05.htmlAmerican capitalism in decline has neither interest in, nor financial support to offer, artistic creation.Tue, 05 Oct 2010 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/026572d4-4d85-48cf-9b04-d7942bfdb3bM/pers-o05.html2010-10-05T05:00:00Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2010/03/nyca-m18.htmlArts editor David Walsh addressed some of the current problems in American cultural life, and their historical roots, in a recent talk.Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/b7fb6b20-d780-4316-a830-c1145c2ba11P/nyca-m18.html2010-03-18T05:00:00Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2010/02/bols-f17.htmlThe Great Utopia: The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde, 1915–1932 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, in 1992-1993, was a major event. David Walsh wrote a series of articles in the Bulletin, a predecessor of the WSWS, which we began republishing February 13 in three parts. Here is the entire piece.Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/e31b1535-3cbf-495a-92ee-bd747d485d5G/bols-f17.html2010-02-17T05:00:00Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2009/12/eli1-d30.htmlThis year marked the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, along with Marx’s A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy. The publication of George Eliot’s Adam Bede in 1859 also deserves to be noted.Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/07750738-fdc4-449b-b437-cdc9b04d0f3L/eli1-d30.html2009-12-30T05:00:00Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2009/04/art1-a21.htmlWSWS arts editor David Walsh recently delivered a talk on “The Future of Art in an Age of Crisis” in a number of US cities. We are posting that lecture in two parts, beginning today.Tue, 21 Apr 2009 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/f69d11f4-e930-43bb-b189-8b0c2a4b56aP/art1-a21.html2009-04-21T05:00:00Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2009/03/wals-m04.htmlIn meetings at San Diego State University and at the Santa Monica Public Library in the Los Angeles last week, WSWS Arts Editor David Walsh addressed students, artists and workers on “The future of art in an age of crisis.”Wed, 04 Mar 2009 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/b6b00cbc-f0fe-4bcd-824e-bd2ba2b94dfM/wals-m04.html2009-03-04T05:00:00Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2008/12/lett-d16.htmlA selection of recent letters sent to the World Socialist Web Site on David Walsh’s discussions with screenwriter-playwright Trevor Griffiths and filmmaker Mike Leigh.Tue, 16 Dec 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/081201ef-e2a9-4f0d-b850-dde2565eae4M/lett-d16.html2008-12-16T05:00:00Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2008/12/man1-d11.htmlOn November 12 WSWS arts editor David Walsh and screenwriter-playwright Trevor Griffiths held a discussion on the subject of “The Writer and Revolution.” We are posting an edited version of the event today and tomorrow, along with video excerpts.Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/74847f47-6a3c-42d4-9535-2aa27f132b7D/man1-d11.html2008-12-11T05:00:00Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2008/11/lect-n26.htmlWSWS arts editor David Walsh recently delivered a talk on “Art and socialism” in a number of cities in Britain. We’re posting that lecture today.Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/662d760a-08c5-44a1-b2c2-c8c9ebefb5fC/lect-n26.html2008-11-26T05:00:00Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2008/10/dwal-o25.htmlGlobal capitalism has entered its greatest crisis since the 1930s. The economic slump will undoubtedly lead to a widespread radicalization, as all the myths about the "free market" are shattered.Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/78cbe800-5617-40f1-b7cc-7e9479337abG/dwal-o25.html2008-10-25T05:00:00Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2008/10/aest-o11.htmlThe following lecture was delivered on January 9, 1998 to the International Summer School on Marxism and the Fundamental Problems of the 20th Century, organised by the Socialist Equality Party (Australia) in Sydney from January 3-10, 1998.Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/f6cdad78-9dd2-40b9-bfef-8c9eeda02caC/aest-o11.html2008-10-11T05:00:00Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2008/10/comm-o11.htmlI would like to expand on one question raised in the lecture: the objective character of artistic cognition and the significance of its study for revolutionaries.Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/78bc9ff3-a22d-4c96-b820-6fec561976cK/comm-o11.html2008-10-11T05:00:00Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2007/01/ques-j23.htmlStudents and faculty members attended the talk on “Film, history and socialism” given by WSWS arts editor David Walsh at York University in Toronto, January 17. The following is an edited version of the question-and-answer period that followed Walsh’s presentation.Tue, 23 Jan 2007 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/eee1e27d-ad87-4a7c-a780-d14deb9f3eaE/ques-j23.html2007-01-23T05:00:00Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2007/01/york-j22.htmlFilm is little more than a century old. It is an art form whose entire history is contained, for all intents and purposes, in the twentieth century, a century of convulsive and often tragic events, of global civil war, of gigantic and as yet unresolved social struggles.Mon, 22 Jan 2007 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/f0a90f2a-ba22-4dd0-a85f-d539323344fP/york-j22.html2007-01-22T05:00:00Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2006/03/dwa1-m21.htmlPublished below is the first of a two-part report on artistic and cultural issues delivered by David Walsh to an expanded meeting of the World Socialist Web Site International Editorial Board (IEB) held in Sydney from January 22 to 27, 2006. Walsh a member of the World Socialist Web Site IEB and the WSWS Arts editor.Tue, 21 Mar 2006 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/35e1507b-3c53-4ffc-a490-f48a4275d10N/dwa1-m21.html2006-03-21T05:00:00Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2005/09/le7-all.htmlThis lecture was delivered by David Walsh, the arts editor of the World Socialist Web Site, at the Socialist Equality Party/WSWS summer school held August 14 to August 20, 2005 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.Fri, 30 Sep 2005 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/83254b88-ba0c-41da-b76f-4bcc1d97a72G/le7-all.html2005-09-30T05:00:00Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/1998/01/aest-j03.htmlArt expresses things about life, about people and about oneself that are not revealed in political or scientific thought. To become whole, human beings require the truth about the world, and themselves, that art offers.Sat, 03 Jan 1998 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/5d594f92-9298-4506-bd4d-62dd0645a3dJ/aest-j03.html1998-01-03T05:00:00Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/1997/11/wild-n08.htmlOn July 28, 1997 we published an article by David Walsh on Oscar Wilde and his contribution to twentieth century cultural and political life (see article, Oscar Wilde’s lasting significance). We publish here a letter from a reader in Australia, and a reply by Walsh.Sat, 08 Nov 1997 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/c8d982c1-abbc-4d9b-9834-1373fc3ebf1K/wild-n08.html1997-11-08T05:00:00Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/1997/06/bret-j16.htmlIn June and July 1938 Leon Trotsky, exiled Russian revolutionary, and André Breton, French Surrealist poet and thinker, collaborated in Mexico on the writing of an extraordinary "Manifesto for an Independent Revolutionary Art." This declaration remains the most eloquent expression yet produced of the commonality of interests of the artist and the revolutionary Marxist.Mon, 16 Jun 1997 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/3f3a8efa-3da0-4ca6-9822-d8f2bd1f528O/bret-j16.html1997-06-16T05:00:00Zhttps://www.wsws.org/en/articles/1993/09/said-s13.htmlEdward Said, a Palestinian and a professor of literature at Columbia University in New York City, has set himself the task in Culture and Imperialism of offering "a history of the imperial adventure rendered in cultural terms."Mon, 13 Sep 1993 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.wsws.org/asset/44dd2eee-0810-4e44-b41e-ab938d95e5eM/said-s13.html1993-09-13T05:00:00Z