Can activist art be good art?

New Yorker Steve Lambert knows a thing about activist art, and he is coming to Sydney to talk about what rocks a topic while remaining "good art".

12 May 2016

Gina Fairley

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Visual Arts

Steve Lambert, Capitalism Works for Me! (True/False); courtesy the artist

How do you define artistic activism today? While it might sound a simple question, the answer is extremely complicated and ever evolving.

We caught up with New Yorker Steve Lambert who has garnered an international reputation for rethinking artistic activism, approaching it more strategically as a learnt profession.

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Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's National Visual Arts Editor. For a decade she worked as a freelance writer and curator across Southeast Asia and was previously the Regional Contributing Editor for Hong Kong based magazines Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. Prior to writing she worked as an arts manager in America and Australia for 14 years, including the regional gallery, biennale and commercial sectors. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Twitter: @ginafairley Instagram: fairleygina