For eight years Kirk Anderson drew political cartoons for the Pioneer Press in St. Paul, Minn. "I was fortunate to be an editorial cartoonist while Jesse Ventura was our governor," he says. Las ...

Slide Show: A collection of cartoons that rocked art and politics. One can write a number of things about David Levine's 1984 cartoon of Henry Kissinger, shirtless in bed, on top of an ...

Art Buchwald wrote a thrice-weekly column on D.C. absurdities. He’d bang it out in an hour, run the jokes by an assistant and then head to Sans Souci.

Asked if he ever read the humorist Art Buchwald, Richard Nixon replied: “No, no I don’t think he is funny. He is certainly not serious.” Nixon was wrong — on both counts.

Political satire seems to have run its course, for the time being, at least. Why? Likely because it’s generally not funny and it’s heavy-handedly anti-conservative.

For more than fifty years, from 1949 to 2006, Art Buchwald’s Pulitzer Prize–winning column of political satire and biting wit made him one of the most widely read American humorists and a ...

Everyone today is told they are funny. It’s the one thing this country has a surplus of now, confidence. Everything is an open mic, and everyone is told they are wildly funny.

Art is inherently political. Here are some artists who are using their voice for good Good artists create more than beauty; they create justice.

“I’m not someone into putting a piece of art on a wall, it’s all about public engagement in the work,” O’Donoghue says, “public-facing, off-site in unusual locations, you’re going to ...