Just unveiled, the Guerrilla Girls’ new Minneapolis billboard—erected to oppose the proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage—quotes Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann: “We all have the same civil rights.”

The plinth beneath the infamous Saddam Hussein statue that once stood in Baghdad’s Firdos Square is getting new life: artist Abbas Gharib has designed a “69-foot cylinder whose top flares into 18 pointed arches representing the provinces of Iraq.”

Part 2 of Frieze’s series on art and politics includes Gregory Sholette, Harrell Fletcher, Anja Kirschner & David Panos, and Max Andrews, who cites Tino Seghal’s “devastingly treacherous” This Is Propaganda as “effective” political art.

Jenny Holzer has created a series of outdoor projections for a show at the west LA gallery L&M Arts. Among the truisms: “BOREDOM MAKES YOU DO CRAZY THINGS” and “ALL THINGS ARE DELICATELY INTERCONNECTED.”

As dOCUMENTA (13) wraps up, a group of artists is criticizing organizers for ignoring Kassel’s current and past ties to arms manufacturing. It’s protesting Krauss-Maffei Wegmann, which has roots in Kassel, for exporting tanks to Saudi Arabia.

As it turns one on Saturday, Occupy wants to “[p]rove the corporate media are wrong when they say Occupy is over.” And artists and thinkers—including Martha Rosler, Paul Chan, and Slavoj Žižek—are helping make the case.

American composer Philip Glass and Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang have been given lifetime achievement awards by the Japanese Art Association. The $187,000 prize rewards work that “offers hope for the future.”

Dmitry Medvedev has called for the release of Pussy Riot: “I don’t want to replace the judge … but the time they have already served is, in essence, more than enough to make them think about what happened, whether it was from their own stupidity or for other reasons.”