{"id":20583,"date":"2020-07-15T15:30:03","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T06:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/jul\/15\/artists-kabul-mural-artlords-afghan-imagery-corruption"},"modified":"2020-07-15T15:30:03","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T06:30:03","slug":"artlords-not-warlords-how-kabuls-artists-battle-for-the-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20583","title":{"rendered":"Artlords, not warlords &ndash; how Kabul&#8217;s artists battle for the streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Muralists are covering the Afghan capital\u2019s blast walls with agitprop imagery and calling out corruption<\/p>\n<p>From the killing of George Floyd in the US and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/jun\/08\/afghan-car-blaze-deaths-prompt-fury-over-mistreatment-of-refugees-in-iran\">drowning of Afghan refugees<\/a> in Iran, to the signing of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/29\/us-taliban-sign-peace-agreement-afghanistan-war\">US-Taliban agreement towards peace<\/a> and brutal murder of a Japanese aid worker, a group of Afghan artists have taken paintbrushes to adorn Kabul\u2019s grey blast walls with vivid imagery.<\/p>\n<p>The barriers have been transformed into politically inspired murals, which the artists hope will create \u201cvisual dialogue\u201d and raise awareness of corruption and injustices.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/jul\/15\/artists-kabul-mural-artlords-afghan-imagery-corruption\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muralists are covering the Afghan capital\u2019s blast walls with agitprop imagery and calling out corruptionFrom the killing of George Floyd in the US and the drowning of Afghan refugees in Iran, to the signing of the US-Taliban agreement towards peace and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,546,91,71,59,1554,80,61,1553,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-art","category-art-and-design","category-culture","category-global-development","category-painting","category-protest","category-south-and-central-asia","category-street-art","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20584,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20583\/revisions\/20584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}