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Artivism, When Art Becomes a Weapon. Artivism — the fusion of artistic practice and political urgency — has a history as long as injustice itself. But the internet has transformed it into something new: a global, leaderless, perpetually mutating force. The term “artvism” — a portmanteau of art and activism — has become common currency in curatorial circles over the past decade. But the practice it describes is ancient. As long as some have wielded power unjustly, others have responded with image, sound, and story. What has changed, profoundly and irreversibly, is the speed, reach, and granularity with which art can now confront power. Here we will try to trace artvism from its roots in revolutionary muralism and Dadaist provocation through to the hyper-networked present, where a single image posted online can ignite or sustain a global movement within hours. Go to article -> rawartformat.com/artivism-wh… #artmagazine #arthistory #artworld #artists #artmagazines #artivism

On Kitsch, Its Seductions, and the Con of Manufactured Depth. There is a balloon dog the size of a small car, forged in mirror-polished stainless steel, reflecting the crowd that gathered to admire it. It costs somewhere north of $50 million. The crowd, educated, sophisticated, aware loves it without embarrassment, which is precisely what its maker intended. Jeff Koons has never hidden what he is doing. The problem is that much of the art world has pretended, for decades now, that what he is doing is something else entirely. This is the central deception of contemporary kitsch: not that it is pleasurable, but that pleasure has been dressed in the borrowed clothes of criticality and passed off as intellectual seriousness. To understand why this matters, we first need to understand what kitsch actually is… #artmagazine #artists #contemporaryartmagazine #contemporaryart #kitsch Go to article -> rawartformat.com/the-gilded-…

The Silent War Between Graffiti and Street Art Walk through any major city and you’ll see it unfolding in plain sight: a name scrawled high on a train bridge, a towering mural wrapping around a building, a stencil tucked into a doorway. To the untrained eye, it’s all the same, paint on public space. But beneath the surface lies a long-running, often unspoken tension: the quiet rivalry between graffiti and street art. They share walls, tools, and urban DNA. Yet their histories, intentions, and relationships to the public couldn’t be more different. Go to article -> rawartformat.com/#street-art #graffiti #streetart #artmagazine #artists #contemporaryartmagazine

How Instagram killed the ratio. A century of photographic tradition — from Oskar Barnack’s Leica to the Hasselblad on the moon — dismantled by a Silicon Valley app and a generation raised on smartphone screens. #artmagazine #art #photography #artmagazines #visualhistory

Giotto, The Man Who Reshaped Western Art In the history of Western art, few revolutions announce themselves quietly. Most are loud, polemical, and documented in manifestos and counter-manifestos. But the revolution that Giotto di Bondone unleashed upon the world in the early fourteenth century was about painting human figures that seemed alive. Read Article —> rawartformat.com/giotto-the-…