Handmade signs favoured over high-tech placards at Zuccotti Park

Occupy Wall Street protesters avoid high-tech placards in favour of scruffy, organic signs made by hand with cardboard construction paper and magic markers. It's part of a deliberate effort to make their message more authentic, says Blake Gopnik. Read more...

Occupy Museums launched as an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement

Launched as an offshoot to Occupy Wall Street and approved by its art and culture group, the Occupy Museums movement plans to fight "the intense commercialisation and co-option of art" and take back cultural institutions from the 1%. The first protests in New York targeted the Museum of Modern Art, the Frick Collection and the New Museum.