As part of Art, Protest, & the Archive, a poster which read "La Béauté est dans la rue" or "beauty in the streets" from Paris, 1968. Happenings, guerilla theater, radical poetry and radical chic, were all strategies and tactics that had emerged in the postwar art- and-protest culture. These aspects came together in a massive youth uprising often collectively remembered today as “May ’68.” The revolt lasted several years and spread across the globe, with actions flaring up throughout Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Japan. For most, the epicenter seemed to be the uprising of May 1968 in Paris, when students declared solidarity with striking workers, occupied the Sorbonne, the Odéon Theater, and the École des Beaux Art. Renamed the Atelier Populaire (Popular Studio), the workshops of the “Ex-École des Beaux Art” became a factory co-op churning out thousands of posters that covered the city in a dazzling blanket of revolutionary color. Find out more about visiting Art, Protest, & the ...