Macedonia’s artful dissidence

Amid a wiretapping scandal, protesters are creatively showing disgust with politicians.

On June 6, Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov, pictured while visiting Canada in 2013, revoked all of the pardons he had issued for politicians implicated in the wiretapping scandal. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

June 15, 2016

LONDON, U.K.—Abstract expressionism is no longer cutting-edge art in most places, but in one country it is enjoying a massive popular revival: Macedonia. The artists are at work day and night in the capital, Skopje, decorating public buildings and statues with splatters of every colour in the rain...

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