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The Joey Skaggs Archive Announces the Release of the Oral History Series

Watch free now!

“Joey Skaggs and Art Activism, 1960s to the Present and Beyond”
Following successful film festival runs, the first eleven award-winning episodes are now available for free streaming.

Stream on: JoeySkaggs.com, Youtube, and Vimeo.

About the Series
These short documentary oral history films pull back the curtain on Joey Skaggs’ art and life, drawing on six decades of rare archival footage, photographs, press materials, correspondence, and other documents. Continue reading “The Joey Skaggs Archive Announces the Release of the Oral History Series”

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Attempting to Humor the Humorless

There’s a long history of clowning for social justice. We need more of it. Thank you Felipe.

Send in the clowns: the new guard of activists combating the right, by Morgan Jerkins, The Guardian, September 16, 2026.

A growing cohort of performers ‘clown’ as a means to innovate traditional protest and create social change

On a humid morning on 15 July, Tillie the Clown, a Brooklyn-based drag performer whose real name is Taylor Horne, was waiting to be let inside a New York City council meeting. Horne had started getting into character at 5am, for a makeup and clown-costuming process that would take two hours. It would be another 10 hours before Horne was allowed to address the city council about the passing of Romanch’s Law, which would phase out and ultimately ban New York’s horse carriage industry.

Read whole article here.

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The Joke’s on Who?

When will “cancel culture” evolve and stop trying to canceling speech that’s clearly and obviously protected by the 1st Amendment?

The price of campus humorlessness, by Washington Post, September 8, 2026.

The University of Washington pays $600,000 to a professor it investigated for poking fun at a land acknowledgment.

One way to identify ideologues is that they won’t tolerate ribbing. After the University of Washington recommended that computer science professors include in their course materials an acknowledgment of “the Coast Salish peoples of this land,” one instructor responded with a parody statement on his syllabus.

That angered the university administration, which launched an investigation. But now the professor has prevailed in court, winning $600,000 in damages and legal fees, as well as securing a vow by the university to allow his parody statement. Read whole article here.

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Seek and Ye Shall Find…

Yes, if you’re only looking for what you want to see.

Fashion victim in fur suit sparks Bigfoot panic in small Maine town: ‘Very convincing’, by Zoe Hussain, New York Post, September 6, 2026.

The hairy truth finally came out.

Maine cops launched an investigation after a surge of 911 calls reported spotting Bigfoot roaming around town — only to discover it was actually just a fashion victim in a “very convincing” costume.

Damariscotta cops received an “unusually high number of calls” on Tuesday about a Sasquatch-like creature wandering around the tiny mid-coast tourist destination, including during morning drop-off on the first day of school, according to NBC News and the Damariscotta Police Department.

Read whole article here.

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RIP Yayoi Kusama 1929 – 2026

Remembering Kusama: In 1968, artist, Yayoi Kusama joined Joey Skaggs’ Hippie Bus Tour to Queens. In a satirical ironic reversal, the group toured neighborhoods and snapped photos of suburbanites mowing their lawns and washing their cars. When the group stopped at Hillside’s Nirvana head shop in Queens, the “Group Image” band played while Kusama painted polka dots on the naked dancers.

Read The Guardian’s Obituary here:
Yayoi Kusama, Japanese artist who became a global superstar, dies aged 97, by Tim Jonze and Sian Cain, August 26, 2026.

 

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