Van Gogh in America at the Detroit Institute of Arts
Seventy-four extraordinary works are on display during an exclusive exhibition in Detroit.
Seventy-four extraordinary works are on display during an exclusive exhibition in Detroit.
Hunt 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.
This 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.
This 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.
The 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.
This 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.
WSWS 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.
We 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.
WSWS arts editor David Walsh recently spoke at the University of Salford in the Greater Manchester area in the UK.
American capitalism in decline has neither interest in, nor financial support to offer, artistic creation.
Arts editor David Walsh addressed some of the current problems in American cultural life, and their historical roots, in a recent talk.
The 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.
This 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.
WSWS 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.
In 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.”
A 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.
On 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.
WSWS 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.
Global 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.
I 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.