Artwashing describes the use of art and artists in a positive way to distract from or legitimize negative actions by an individual, organization, country, or government—especially in reference to gentrification.
[1][2] With a structure similar to terms such as greenwashing, pinkwashing, and purplewashing, it is a portmanteau of the words "art" and "whitewashing".
The term was coined in the 2017 protests against gentrification in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles.
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