" C.B.: "I think political films end up being agitprop.
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It could take the brand back to its agitprop roots.
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It's far from agitprop, however, and Reichert never repeats herself.
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In response, the activists were given space in the Agitprop!
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But, for all its theatricality, the series isn't agitprop, either.
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I decide to make the piece I thought was agitprop.
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"Die Meistersinger" was easily made to function as nationalistic agitprop.
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There is no death-panel style agitprop for Republicans to contend with, so instead they are able to deploy agitprop of their own, including to neutralize the dispassionate findings of the Congressional Budget Office.
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However, you might want to wait until after April 6. Agitprop!
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Lately, it has gone into overdrive, inventing new forms of agitprop.
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T Agitprop Art doesn't just reflect the world — it engages with it.
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Say what you will about the Oscars: They enjoy self-congratulatory liberal agitprop!
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Surely musical theater is last on the list of mediums suited to agitprop.
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And yet, as a piece of agitprop, the ad is a master class.
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This ambivalence deepens Ms. Simmons's art and keeps it from falling into simplistic agitprop.
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It's a smart trick, which lets the show be inspirational without curdling into agitprop.
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Mr. Bannon's aggressive style and creative agitprop were clear factors in Breitbart's recent success.
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JS: Yes, you became involved with agitprop work and co-founded Dyke Action Machine!
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CM: Yes, when I returned to painting I was thinking as an agitprop maker.
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But Democrats' problems didn't begin when the Kremlin started taking an interest in American agitprop.
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T Agitprop A dozen artistic responses to one of the greatest threats of our time.
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This was twenty-first-century agitprop, steeped in globalized culture and designed for digital virality.
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Written and directed by Ifeoma Fafunwa, "Hear Word!" is agitprop theater of an exceptionally vital order.
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But "Building the Wall," which barely cracks a half-smile, is too becalmed to be agitprop.
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Think Soviet agitprop, performance art and Bansky with the social consciousness of the community organizer Saul Alinsky.
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These paintings were conceived as easily understood allegories and thus serve as agitprop for the Sandinista revolution.
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Perhaps the era's single most famous example of artist-made agitprop was similarly conceived as a giveaway.
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The writers' main sympathy is with the migrants and refugees themselves, but, thankfully, this is not mere agitprop.
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Far from being agitprop provocateurs, their ingenuity was driven strictly by the artistic need to resolve dramatic problems.
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The judicial power grab may also have turned off voters who still recall the years of Communist agitprop.
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It bore poison fruit with the Florida bomb suspect, whose Facebook page was littered with Fox News agitprop.
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The president didn't share the agitprop, but he did bang out a tweet questioning the speaker's well-being.
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Conflicting impulses shift "Party People" toward drama at some moments, toward history lesson at others, toward agitprop occasionally.
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But it's the opposite of a rousing agitprop song; its protest is veiled in both sound and message.
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Under Stalin, the police choir's repertoire included agitprop, along with music by the superproductive Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich.
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They are also symbolic, of course, and part of a long and rich tradition of agitated agitprop movie fantasy.
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Earlier that year, audiences had fallen hard for the ancien-régime agitprop of Downton Abbey, which premiered in January.
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Giuliani's version, which may have originated elsewhere, strips out the company's logo and repurposes the video as unadulterated agitprop.
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Ken Loach's brutally moving agitprop drama demands a thought be spared for the anonymous souls who drop this stuff off.
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Sullivan's film, The Startled Faction (a sensitivity training), is a tumbling-together of social satire, utopian feminism, and anarchist agitprop.
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VOICE = SURVIVAL at the 8th Floor enshrines the multimedia art activism of queer radicals while exploring its legacy in contemporary agitprop.
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But the barrage of agitprop by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) represented a dramatic shift towards a warning of outright war.
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Bannon has made documentaries himself (although his style trends toward crude agitprop rather than anything artistic) and regards Morris as an inspiration.
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The best Republicans can hope for between now and November 8 is minimal drama: Trump dials down the conspiratorial, Breitbart-inspired agitprop.
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This piece of agitprop from the American paper of record might have been a worthy addition to the Museum of Communist Betrayal.
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Instead, Tarrant exalts the pure-white past white supremacists have conjured up for Europe, and evokes the maudlin myths of nationalist agitprop.
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They wore clothes shouting agitprop — "UNSKINNY," read one hugely shouldered sweatshirt; "STRAIGHTHATE," said another — but they weren't mere billboards for adolescent aggression.
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Historically alert to present forces shaping the making of policy as well as poetry, this agitprop statement also comes off as sincere.
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Hannity and others on the right have made liberal use of "whataboutism," a hallmark of Soviet agitprop and literally RT's corporate motto.
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So when I first encountered the script in college, it read almost as reportage or agitprop, with an implied call to action.
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Taring Padi's latest batch of agitprop addresses the election in the passionate, idealistic, yet indirect style of discourse they have always favored.
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It is alarming for Trump to seek an investigation of the Obama administration on the basis of right-wing agitprop and raw impulse.
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The first installation of Agitprop also surveys how artists over the last hundred years have been engaged in the politics of their times.
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Like Taylor, he retained his poise as the Republicans attempted to cloud Trump's self-evident transgressions with all manner of Fox News agitprop.
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Hers is an art of advocacy that lingers on moments of beauty and turns agitprop into a tender (but angry when appropriate) exercise.
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Mr. Howley, before hanging up his own agitprop shingle, had a rocky tour of duty at some of Washington's leading conservative news organizations.
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"This is a show about agitprop, which is about using art and culture to advance activism and social change," Betty Yu, an artist, said.
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A gathering of recent agitprop about water, the Queens Museum's Commonwealth: Water for All spotlights water's political dimensions more directly than DNA of Water.
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You watch helplessly as the avant-garde hardens into agitprop, and see how even the most stolid of styles could be complicit in horror.
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The mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey gave a stupendous account of the title role, executing hyper-elegant coloratura as confidently as she did agitprop orations.
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Yeeeah Studio Actually, this was a good week: instead of having to feature Simpsons bootlegs or enamel agitprop I can actually feature talented artists.
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First shown in 1964, this Soviet-Cuban agitprop spectacle, directed by Mikhail Kalatozov ("The Cranes Are Flying"), celebrates the ostensible glories of Castro's revolution.
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The Brooklyn Museum's latest exhibition, Agitprop, through an array of media, explores the impact of artists taking their messages from the museums to the streets.
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The first wave of over 20 Agitprop artists explores the beginning of the category of art with posters made after the October Revolution of 1917.
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That's what they'll do at this event, centered on the "Agitprop!" exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, made up of works by artists advocating social change.
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After all, the museum space, which was conceived as a receptacle for historic objects, is often thought of as anathema to living, political movements. Agitprop!
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She had traded in the elegiac historical fiction of "We the Living" for another Soviet inheritance: agitprop novels, dedicated to showcasing heroic individualists and entrepreneurs.
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But she added that the work in the show mostly strikes a tone that's less "agitprop-like or angry" than one might expect in 2019.
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Something of a crowning achievement, his Four Elements paintings (1987) express a command of painting for an artist probably best known for agitprop, prints and collage.
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In April 2016, the first sign of progress came when the collectively created artwork "A People's Monument to Anti-Displacement Organizing" was added to the Agitprop!
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A work of protest in the guise of absurdist satire, Sorry to Bother You is agitprop first, and movie second — luckily, it's extremely good at both.
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NBC reported on Monday morning that Bolton had served as the chairman of the Gatestone Institute, a far-right think tank known for publishing anti-Muslim agitprop.
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Ben Grosser, who I wrote about when he created "Demetricator" software to remove likes and other engagement numbers for social networks, is back with an agitprop supercut.
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Trump Jr.'s Twitter feed is a rolling repository of right-wing talking points interspersed with viral agitprop and acid, often protracted indictments of the news media.
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Images from her childhood in South London, with its West Indian, South Asian, and West African populace, creates the tapestry of inspiration we see in her agitprop.
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One can't help but suspect that this agitprop perversion of Indonesian history obsessively dwells on the myth of rampant Communist torture as a form of psychic compensation.
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With some politicians also debating whether the military should convert to a voluntary service, the K-pop bands serve as syrupy agitprop and a potential recruiting tool.
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Essentially agitprop presented as news, the program is fueling speculation that Mr. Trump wants to start a network, purveying news and opinion tailored to the candidate's worldview.
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It was a kind of precursor to the weaponization of fake news we saw last cycle, with Russian bots sharing anti-Clinton agitprop on Facebook and Twitter.
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" Republicans who are reveling in Mr. Franken's resignation, she warns, are falling victim to "agitprop and exaggeration" just because the "the other guy's bull is getting gored.
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It also created an immortal anti-hero in the form of the Reverend Bacon, a black politician who uses any excuse to engage in agitprop and race-baiting.
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From the 1970s on, Godard dedicated much of his work to Brechtian agitprop, Maoist didacticism, and, later, films in collaboration with his long-time partner Anne-Marie Miéville.
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In Succession, he moves his target to New York, to media and agitprop, to empires that often have a far greater effect on politics than any elected official.
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Some Jewish artists, such as Ilya Kabakov and the pair of Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid produced parodies of Communist agitprop that is at once satirical and nostalgic.
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In this glutted and distractible social-media landscape, a nugget of agitprop can rise to overwhelm actual fact, as long as it's presented in an ominous enough package.
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He had read about them in a lurid piece of agitprop published by the British Committee on Alleged German War Outrages, and was passing on the semifake news.
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And if we are to judge "The Birth of a Nation" on these terms—as agitprop, however auteurist—it's worth asking what greater good, exactly, it might achieve.
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The documentary starts at the beginning of the 24th century, with a discussion of D.W. Griffith's 26 film Birth of a Nation, a hugely influential piece of racist agitprop.
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" China's response: A taunting agitprop tweet from the editor-in-chief of China's state-owned Global Times: "President Trump threatens China while he seemingly doesn't understand how tariffs work.
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More recently, Republicans have gotten themselves wrapped around the axle by an anti-Planned Parenthood agitprop campaign, orchestrated by people who are now indicted for tampering with government records.
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He lies in specific, dangerous ways, and it is entirely appropriate for the opposition party—and the news media—to provide an honest rebuttal to the agitprop he spits.
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" The gallery will host three exhibitions in 2019, organized by independent curators Jaishri Abichandani and Natasha Becker and focusing on futuristic renderings of "craft, activism, data visualization, and agitprop.
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The show's most strident agitprop is "Debtfair" (2012-17), an enormous installation by a largely New York-based group, Occupy Museums, which emerged from the Occupy Wall Street campaign.
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Brett Morgen's documentary about the trial of antiwar protesters who were arrested during the 1968 Democratic National Convention is as sly a piece of agitprop as the trial itself.
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We journalists will put pressure on companies like Facebook and Twitter to be vigilant against fake news; we will expose the patterns of Russian agitprop where we see them.
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But the aughts brought about the fall of a slew of queer record labels at the center of the genre, from the 2004 fall of Mr. Lady to Agitprop!
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The interventions are meant to highlight ordinary people who are perceived by the dominant society as being in some way other — really agitprop devices rather than art or hip matériel.
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By using an agitprop-inspired kiosk to project these images and examine this history, Ferreira reconciles the utilitarian and mechanized forms of modern society with the creative movements they inspired.
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Parsing through the aftermath, the pair began collaborating, drawing on Dada and other Interwar art movements to create bizarro, disconcerting takes on agitprop posters, 50s ad graphics, and religious pamphlets.
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In the early 20th century, following the communist revolution in Russia, the Soviet state used agitprop—a portmanteau of the words 'agitation' and 'propaganda'—to disseminate their messages through art.
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She later met with artists, including representatives of collectives like Not an Alternative, the Illuminator, Ultra-red and Occupy Museums, that had been scheduled to participate in the "Agitprop!" show.
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The video, narrated by the musician David Byrne and proposing a digital method for tracking use of the tear gas, has the pulse-pushing tone and pace of effective agitprop.
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It's a new threshold in the way social media networks are being used, now, to create agitprop campaigns—regardless of truth—and one we'll likely get used to seeing before too long.
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I get the feeling that de la Peña's team thinks about this far more than coverage of the empathy-entertainment complex usually suggests — that their work is clearly activism, but not agitprop.
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Look at how Dinesh D'Souza's conservative agitprop documentary Death of a Nation despicably invokes the story of Sophie Scholl as part of its argument that actually fascism is a left-wing phenomenon.
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A year later, Lyon joined SNCC as their first staff photographer, traveling through the South documenting sit-ins, demonstrations for voting rights, white violence, black spiritual resistance, and creating agitprop from his pictures.
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In a dystopian twist, the ever-expanding void left in the wake of all this creative destruction is being filled by websites masquerading as local news outlets that serve up right-wing agitprop.
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Besides potentially drawing a visual parallel between the output of public-funded news and state-sponsored agitprop, YouTube's transparency effort does nothing to combat disinformation from other funding vectors: Info Wars, for example.
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Directed by Jesse Rasmussen and Ms. Sampson herself, both recent graduates of the Yale School of Drama, it often seems too eager to escape the gravity of drama, heading toward oratory or agitprop.
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In The Wall Street Journal, Daniel Henninger, deputy editor of the editorial page, writes that the Democrats have been co-opted by a professional cabal of people committing obfuscatory "agitprop" against their opponents.
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Visitors to "Agitprop!" wander past historical photographs, banners and ephemera documenting global political commentary, from a 1930 Soviet poster commemorating International Working Women's Day to an Ecuadorean artist's piece urging resistance to government censorship.
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The piece is by Interference Archive, an ambitious collective that also contributes to "Agitprop!" and has its own exhibition (and listening) space at 28687 Eighth Street, No. 223, in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn.
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Whether there is anything Congress can do -- though quite clearly they need to do something -- that will more than temporarily mitigate the asymmetrical online agitprop that's seized the social network is another unanswered question.
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Rowlands is more focused on a Trump- (and Yiannopoulos-) inspired brand of political activism, one that spreads conservative ideas by generating agitprop, rather than worrying too much about policies or convincing moderates to vote Republican.
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Absent a far wider effort to incentivize and enable news consumers to distinguish serious news and analysis from agitprop, FARA registration or not, the influence of RT and other shady news sources may survive intact.
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" This epic opening is followed by aggressive agitprop against women of all kind, including Oprah ("she needs to do a little less brainwashing and a little more sock washing") and Ally McBeal ("more like Ally McBullshit!
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In recent years, Chinese studios have started shifting away from the agitprop that defined their cinematic output for generations and are instead focusing on genres that draw viewers to theaters in any country: action, adventure, comedy.
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Consider Julian Schnabel's brawny Neo-Expressionist paintings, Cindy Sherman's canny, staged self-portraits, Jeff Koons's sumptuous sculptures of kitschy objects and Barbara Kruger's suavely designed leftist agitprop: The '21981s abounded in eye- and mind-grabbing work.
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That theory-educated cohort—which included Barbara Kruger, who produced mordant feminist agitprop, and Sherrie Levine, who took deadpan photographs of classic modern photographs—beamed contempt at established myths, modes, and motives of prestige in art.
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Mr Corbyn has lived an austere life but also a cosseted one—he grew up in a manor house in Shropshire, doted on by left-wing parents, before immersing himself in the agitprop culture of north London.
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Ms. Pasternak's decision to invite artists critical of the museum to create new pieces for "Agitprop!" sets her apart from most museum directors, said Tom Eccles, executive director of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.
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And the percentage of people and organizations with the time, persistence and skill to ferret out the truth is not high — raising the danger that attitudes will be formed, and actions taken, under the influence of agitprop.
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His comments at the time, as well as similar comments from EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, led many observers — me included — to expect that the study would be agitprop, designed to justify keeping coal and nuclear power plants open.
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Heavily influenced by the moody tones and wide brushstrokes of the German Expressionists, the paintings nevertheless have a spontaneous, quickly produced spirit more aligned with the ephemeral effects of street art and agitprop than with canonical art movements.
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But this is no agitprop showcase; it's a deeply researched dive into the lives of men and women who believed in something with the force others reserved for religion, and could hardly imagine how badly it would turn.
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The onstage marching and flag waving lend the production an agitprop feel, while the text itself is a far cry from Brecht's idealism: The show rails against the inequities and abuses of late capitalism without proposing radical solutions.
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It's wonderful, during this age of agitprop and questions about who gets to speak for whom, to be reminded of the delicacy that one can find in art, a fineness of sensibility that eludes a blatantly political reading.
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The creator, writer and director Sam Esmail did not choose to end his series as a techno-thriller, or a deadly game of cat and mouse, or a science-fiction mind-bender, or a work of political agitprop.
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It rakes in profits by serving up agitprop that targets liberals, Democrats and "deep state" operatives who are said to be plotting to destroy America for the benefit of darker-skinned migrants or a shadowy consortium of elites.
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Griffith's suspense-driven agitprop of racial purity codified the framework, with its perverse take on white power as a cure-all for a society infected with black criminality (critically, the term social thriller wasn't formally minted until the 1970s).
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Facebook reviewers tasked with "disregard[ing] junk … hoaxes or subjects with insufficient sources" are going to ensnare more climate-change denialism, more birther stories, more racist Breitbart agitprop than anything comparably dubious that comes out of the liberal internet.
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" A 0003 piece by Alexander Kosolapov adopts the standard iconography of agitprop signs, which crowded the public spaces of the Soviet Union with ritualistic appeals, orders, and exhortations; he subverts this ideological tool with a seditiously innocuous message: "Sashok!
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Edited to a tighter length, "Comrade Detective" might deliver better on its agitprop satire, as when Gregor and Iosef repeatedly visit the American Embassy, whose lobby is always occupied by two fat men wolfing down a pile of hamburgers.
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Put to work by a reformist government that was anxious to heal the wounds of the recent past, these artists participated through vast mural cycles combining indigenous imagery with socialist agitprop in the great patriotic project of rebuilding the nation.
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Shortly thereafter, the agitprop website Breitbart reported that Priebus might be out of a job, leading Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon, who used to be executive chairman of Breitbart, to wonder aloud where in hell Breitbart got such an idea.
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In Russian government classrooms, the techniques of disinformatia, kompromat, and agitprop — disinformation, compromising material, and political propaganda — have for decades been taught as weapons of war to weaken an opponent prior to military action, or as a substitute for military action.
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Credit...Barrett Emke for The New York Times When commuters spin the radio dial as they drive through Kansas City, Mo., these days, between the strains of classic rock and country hits they can tune in to something unexpected: Russian agitprop.
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The Twitter account of the Patriots of Appalachia, a group posting fliers on the campus of West Virginia University and in a variety of West Virginia and Maryland towns, mixes social concern with racist agitprop, which is an old white supremacist trick.
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Handing near-total control to an auteur like Mr. Esmail could have resulted in a doubling down on the series' most outsize elements: the rage-against-the-machine hacker drama, the bracingly direct anti-corporate agitprop, the bold and off-kilter cinematography.
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Trump's core supporters can't see this disloyalty for what it is, because conservative agitprop media will reframe any developments like these as evidence of disloyalty to Trump—or, where they can't spin inconvenient facts away, they simply won't report them at all.
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The vary from the steady classicism of The Last Supper to the almost Borat-like absurdism of future Herzog protege Kidlat Tahimik's Perfumed Nightmare, from Mauritanian filmmaker Med Hondo's vibrant musical epic West Indies to the overwhelming Argentine agitprop of The Hour of Furnaces.
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" In years past, many critics of the Biennial have felt that agitprop has dominated at the expense of truly transcendent artwork — so much so that the Whitney's own publicists embraced the controversy and once cheekily promoted the Biennial as "the show you love to hate.
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GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO "Come All You Coal Miners," a vintage agitprop lament about coal mining as wage slavery, opens this track in unexpected form, a long way from traditionalism, with Abigail Washburn's near a cappella vocal over eerie electronic tones that may involve banjos in reverse.
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In Episode 6, we get, finally, what feels like a fully original series: crude, witty, and defiant, a crescendoing, agitprop vision of the Bronx in flames, Mayor Ed Koch ascending, and black and gay youth buzzing with creativity that the world refuses to understand.
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NEW DELHI, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Indians have been more amused than outraged by an agitprop video released by a Chinese state news agency that accuses India of perpetrating "Seven Sins" in a two-month-old frontier standoff and resorts to a racial stereotype to make its point.
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But while it certainly belongs to a long tradition of muscular, topical screen entertainment — its DNA bears traces of pre- and post-dictatorship Latin American cinema, of the early films of Costa-Gavras, of Old and New Hollywood agitprop — "Dheepan" has more than headlines on its mind.
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Amazingly, for any presentation of musical agitprop in 2016, no visual images were displayed onstage, and the import of the words failed to come across: She's a strong-voiced, bluesy, bar-band-ish kind of rock singer, not the kind who stuns you with an idea.
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So for the second installment of our series T Agitprop, we asked 215 contemporary artists — Alfredo Jaar, Raúl de Nieves and Hayv Kahraman among them — to submit works, many of them new and being published for the first time, in response to the subject of immigration.
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The story of a Los Angeles family whose elderly father comes out as transgender, transitioning from Mort into Maura (and from Poppa into Moppa), "Transparent" would have won polite praise even if it were merely a piece of well-made agitprop—a ted Talk on trans identity.
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" Frustrated by the American Communist Party's tepid response to his novel "Native Son," Wright wrote to a friend that the party "encourage[s] the creation of types of writing that can be used for agitprop purposes," but had "a tendency to sneer at more creative attempts.
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So while there's much to celebrate about "Orlando" as a milestone, there's also much to lament: an apparent lack of self-editing, an inelegant integration of music and text, and an agitprop bluntness that turns the final scenes into a cringe-worthy litany of liberal causes.
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The shaky, hand-held videos posted to YouTube — the first real recognition, in American politics, of the platform's potential as a stage for agitprop theater — and looped endlessly on Fox News were a message to wavering Republicans that obstruction would be rewarded and compromise would be punished.
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For the third installment of our series T Agitprop, we asked 12 contemporary artists, including Alexis Rockman, Mel Chin, Erin Jane Nelson and the members of the collective Dear Climate, to contribute works, most of them new and created exclusively for T, in response to this global emergency.
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Back in Vitebsk he produced abstract agitprop, like the classic poster "Beat the Whites With the Red Wedge," or else a propaganda billboard for Vitebsk's Committee to Combat Unemployment, seen here in a photograph, whose bold graphics of circles and rectangles were light-years from Chagall's soaring jumpers.
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At chapel, we were sometimes shown religious agitprop videos; in the worst of these, a handsome dark-haired man bid his young son farewell in a futuristic white chamber and then, as violins swelled in the background, walked down an endless hall to be martyred for his Christian faith.
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Organized by the Decolonial Cultural Front and Movement to Protect the People, the catalysts for the protests were a photography exhibition focusing Israel/Palestine, called This Place, as well as ongoing conflict with the museum's director, Anne Pasternak, who many say has downplayed issues raised by artists in the Agitprop!
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Concerned that his defense of adults who have sexual relationships with 13-year-old children might detract from his employer's core mission of publishing racist agitprop, Milo resigned from Breitbart on Tuesday, just 24 hours after CPAC dumped him as a keynote speaker and Simon & Schuster canceled publication of his book.
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A 1989 poster, plastered around Chicago, shows Mayor Richard Daley with the caption "I will not get AIDS," a bit of agitprop that points to Blanchon's association with ACT UP. Other works from that period juxtapose sex ads with photographs of men and women who answered Blanchon's call for volunteer models.
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McCraney, a formidable playwright (his "Choir Boy" is currently on Broadway) and an Oscar winner for "Moonlight," has composed a densely layered, intellectually demanding agitprop drama that draws on rabble-rousing theatrical traditions (Clifford Odets, Dario Fo) while fixing its gaze squarely on the injustices and absurdities of the present.
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Facebook is currently festering with controversy surrounding not just the use of its platforms (including subsidiaries like encrypted chat service WhatsApp) to spread hoax news, propaganda, and myriad agitprop for political purposes, but also its handling of user data and ill-advised campaigns against critics like billionaire philanthropist and Holocaust survivor George Soros.
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Regardless of what Americans have been told in recent years, there is no doubt that Hollywood is simply better at the narrative art than the Russian Foreign Ministry, Putin's press operations, or RT. Chernobyl, of course, was not anti-Russian agitprop, but the Russian propaganda machine can't help but see the potential threat.
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The news, first reported by Politico, comes as President Donald Trump signed into law legislation that would sanction Russia for its interference in the US election, curb Trump's ability to independently ease penalties against Moscow, and bolster the Global Engagement Center (GEC) created to push back against Russian agitprop and other lies.
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Even if you consider yourself a fan of the sports—and let's be honest, if you only watch gymnastics or swimming or running once every four years, you are not really a fan—your viewing pleasure cannot possibly justify the authoritarian agitprop and human rights abuses that accompanied the Beijing and Sochi Games.
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This skill served Bannon poorly in government, but now that he has been canned and returned to his racist agitprop website, it will serve the rest of us as a useful if ultimately regrettable reminder of how wasteful the search for worthiness or merit in the Trump-Bannon mind meld has been.
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However, none of them had access to the budget, exposure or indie cred that comes from sharing a label with Vampire Weekend and M.I.A. But even as Titus Andronicus' populist agitprop recedes into a niche concern in the greater scheme of indie rock, almost no album has proven more sociopolitically prescient in the current day.
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Seventeen months had gone by since Donald Trump's stunning presidential victory—a success credited by many to his campaign's mastery of Facebook's advertising platform, as well as to the divisive agitprop seeded throughout Facebook by Russian trolls from the Internet Research Agency, whose 470 pages and accounts were seen by an estimated 157 million Americans.
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Dre's climactic speech — in which he informs his co-workers that to be black in America is to already love a country that will always let you down, so Trump's win hasn't made him feel any more let down — is the sort of beautiful, hopeful agitprop that Black-ish traffics in at its best.
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There is no such restriction at the Berliner Ensemble, where Mr. Castorf overlays "Les Misérables" with the Cuban author Guillermo Cabrera Infante's experimental novel "Three Sad Tigers," the East German playwright Heiner Müller's seminal postmodern drama "The Mission," and "I Am Cuba," an odd mix of Soviet agitprop and avant-garde filmmaking from 1964.
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The Startled Faction does not plumb the chthonic depths explored by Triangle of Need, with its swaths of dialogue spoken in an invented Neanderthal language; instead, it offers a tumbling-together of social satire, utopian feminism, and anarchist agitprop, packed with enough incident to fill a feature film but without a shred of narrative sense.
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There are the two sets of performers at its twitchy core: Charlie (Florence Pugh) and her agitprop theater troupe, summoned from London to Greece by a mysterious benefactor; and Becker (Alexander Skarsgard) and his fellow Mossad agents, ordered by their Israeli spymaster, Kurtz (Michael Shannon), to infiltrate a Palestinian terrorist cell planting bombs throughout Europe.
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In a cultural climate rife with bloodless art-as-agitprop, their portraits deliver art as embodied news that stays news: these are the inner and outer lives of contemporary Americans, many descended from indigenous people killed or driven away from this fertile region near the Mississippi Delta, or brought here at gunpoint to work against their will.
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These editorials, written by experienced conservative journalists, are implicit admissions that the overwhelming majority of horrifying, conspiratorial things conservatives and Republicans have said about Clinton over the years—from accusing her of murdering Vince Foster, to orchestrating and covering up the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, to endangering U.S. national security with her email setup—have been instrumentalist agitprop.
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In Brooklyn you'll find some engrossing self-portraits, including MoMA's severe "Self-Portrait With Cropped Hair," but Kahlo also painted half-competent still lifes, gross Stalinist agitprop, and ghastly New Age kitsch — including this show's "The Love Embrace of the Universe ...," a world-spiritualist tableau featuring a lactating Mother Earth that would make Deepak Chopra blanch.
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Amidst woozy narrative stretches that seem beholden to Stephen Vincent Benét, we hear from the subject himself and from many others, including a lyric David Lilienthal (with whom the left-leaning Rukeyser fully sides) and a rhyming, rollicking F.D.R. But it is Willkie who gets under Rukeyser's skin the most, irritating her away from thirties agitprop and toward a genuinely artistic ambivalence about her protagonist.
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Or, perhaps they think they can back President Trump into a corner where nothing has been done to negotiate a comprehensive deal with Russia and China and the only alternative is to extend New START, or let it die (the prospect of which will be sure to engender significant pushback from nervous allies and the usual energetic agitprop from Russian President Putin and his misinformation machinery).
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His next three plays, also one-acts, were also successes Off Broadway: "The Sandbox" and "The American Dream" were portraits of family dynamics etched in acid, and "The Death of Bessie Smith," which bordered on uncharacteristic agitprop, was about an incident (later revealed to be untrue) in which the great blues singer of the title, who died after an auto accident, had been turned away from a whites-only hospital.
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I never entirely forsook the theatre I saw as a kid—agitprop grows out of agitation, and that's interesting, too—but what I discovered, as I read and saw works by Alice Childress, Adrienne Kennedy, and Ntozake Shange, then Suzan-Lori Parks, Lynn Nottage, and, most recently, Dominique Morisseau, was that there was, and is, a broader perspective out there, one in which "the man" wasn't the entire issue: being was.
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He's got the role of his life and he's casting his show: Steve Bannon is his Roy Cohn, the combative hammer and agitprop genius; Theresa May is Maggie to his Ronnie; Ivanka and Jared are his consiglieri, family to help him figure out who stays and who gets iced; Vladimir Putin echoes the role of Trump's dad, Fred, who was supremely aggressive and calculating, cool where Donald was hot, someone who believed the world was divided into killers and losers.
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