Ciaran Freeman is an artist, culture writer and visual art teacher at Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C.

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Commentary

Art and the late Linda Nochlin can teach us about suffering

Art: Historian Linda Nochlin's Misère explores how 19th-century art visualizes misery built into the very structure of society, and it's more relevant now than it was just a few short years ago at its 2018 publication.

Book Review

New book says 'unalienated labor' is what makes art, art

Review: John Molyneux's The Dialectics of Art offers a Marxist perspective, positing that art is "is a kind of spiritual health food which contributes to the development of the human personality, especially among working-class people" when they can freely access it.