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Upper Class Safari
Read more: Upper Class SafariWhen the activist group Allt åt Alla wanted to highlight the growing inequality in Sweden they decided to hit the road. A Over Class Safari (Överklassafari) was announced and ticket were sold. The bus ride covered both a working area…
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Nike and ‘For Once, Just Don’t Do It’
Read more: Nike and ‘For Once, Just Don’t Do It’On Friday night, as U.S. television screens burned with images of peaceful protests turning violent, Nike released a new socially conscious ad calling on Americans to do something quite different than the brand’s usual call to “Just Do It.” Instead,…
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2016 Pirelli Calendar May Signal a Cultural Shift
Read more: 2016 Pirelli Calendar May Signal a Cultural ShiftWhen Agnes Gund, the 77-year-old philanthropist and president emerita of the Museum of Modern Art, got the call, she thought: “That’s odd. What’s that got to do with someone like me?” When Fran Lebowitz, the 65-year-old author, got the call,…
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China’s Underground Hiphop
Read more: China’s Underground HiphopChina’s underground hiphop became an art movement since early 2000s. With characteristics of self-expression, localization and social criticism, Chinese hip hop music quickly gained popularity among students and working-class Chinese. Some notable music groups from Beijing include Yin Ts’ang (隐藏)…
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THE GIVERNY SUITE
Read more: THE GIVERNY SUITEFilmed in Harlem, New York, and in Claude Monet’s gardens in Giverny, France, THE GIVERNY SUITE is a cinematic poem that advocates for the safety and bodily autonomy of Black women. Employing techniques including hand-painted film animation and montage editing,…
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Mandela Danced
Read more: Mandela DancedMandela’s notion of manhood changed over time. In the early days, he evoked the image of toughness to deal with an enemy that would not respond to reason. When it became possible to secure peace through talking, Mandela adapted. After…
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Underrepresentation of Marginalized Women in Spain
Read more: Underrepresentation of Marginalized Women in SpainThe artist I chose to focus on personally is the photographer Cristina Garcia Rodero. I used photos from her photography essay España Oculta, in which Rodero traveled to small villages in Spain to document the resident’s lives. Our group’s main…
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Urbaneer
Read more: UrbaneerWhose job is it to create a city? Our intention is to jumpstart a new profession that can re-invent and negotiate the complex mix that encompasses a city. We have defined a radical new occupation to regenerate, pioneer, and sustain…
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The Flood: Gilgamesh and the quest of immortality
Read more: The Flood: Gilgamesh and the quest of immortalityThe project associating the contemporary movement of the people with the Gilgamesh journey focuses on the contemporary global crisis of the political systems and humanistic values, with the goal to contribute to the prevention of radicalization of our respective societies…
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Welcome to Palestine
Read more: Welcome to PalestineWelcome To Palestine by Saed Bannoura Israeli daily Haaretz, reported that 470 of the 1200 persons that Israel blacklisted as “pro-Palestinian” and part of the Welcome To Palestine campaign, were not activists; two of them were a French diplomat and…
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Extending the frame: The art, vision and activism of photographer Will Wilson
Read more: Extending the frame: The art, vision and activism of photographer Will WilsonAt first, you don’t know what you’re looking at. A gray expanse of uneven geometry surrounded by undulating brown. Shift your perspective a bit and it might be a close-up of a distressed textile, with subtle hues and textures surfacing…
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Animal rights activists march in downtown L.A.
Read more: Animal rights activists march in downtown L.A.Animal rights activists march in downtown L.A. By Kelly Goff Ann Bradley is a passionate vegan. The 60-year-old Silver Lake resident said she wasn’t always, though. “I ate it, I wore it, I sat on it, I went to circuses,…