What Kind of Resistance Art Do We Want?

And is it the resistance art that we need? On Civil War (2024).

My first vivid memory of being moved by a work of photojournalism involves a primary school field trip to an art museum, where I saw a black-and-white photo taken of a man at the moment of his death in war. It was the context of this little piece, almost lost in a corner of the exhibit, that made the photo hit so deeply: How could a murder be art? How c…