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Cheering Girls into STEM
Read more: Cheering Girls into STEMDespite the pushes to motivate more young girls into STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields, women are still very underrepresented in almost every scientific field. Part of this motivation is because a lot of young girls would rather do…
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“Just Two of Us”
Read more: “Just Two of Us”Katharina Grosse’s public exhibition “Just Two of Us” consists of eight large meteor looking sculptures painted in bright technicolors. The sculptures, which have been placed in the public plaza at Metro Tech Commons, have transformed downtown Brooklyn. Grosse is a…
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Sirens of the Lambs
Read more: Sirens of the LambsSirens of the Lambs By Banksy A slaughterhouse delivery truck touring the meatpacking district and then citywide for the next two weeks. https://www.banksyny.com/# Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDIz7mEJOeA External sources: https://www.banksyny.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDIz7mEJOeA https://www.streetartnews.net/2013/10/banksy-stuffed-animals-new-truck.html
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The end of the world as we know it !
Read more: The end of the world as we know it !Preparing for the Corporate take over of the Pacific Rim. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LW-TEHIScvw External sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LW-TEHIScvw
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Camp Casey
Read more: Camp CaseyCamp Casey was the name given to the encampment of anti-war protesters outside the Prairie Chapel Ranch in Crawford, Texas during US President George W. Bush’s five-week summer vacation there in 2005, named after Iraq War casualty US Army Specialist…
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A Gift for Amsterdam
Read more: A Gift for AmsterdamIn the summer of 2011, squatters take over an unused building, once an animal shelter, and begin renovating it into a social and cultural center for a neighborhood on the outskirts of Amsterdam. They call it Op de Valreep (“in…
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May Day Occupation at Guggenheim
Read more: May Day Occupation at GuggenheimAt noon today, a group of artists and activists including members of the Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction (known as G.U.L.F.) unfurled a large parachute in the atrium of the Guggenheim Museum, demanding to meet with a member of the institution’s…
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Ice Watch
Read more: Ice WatchDanish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has extracted 30 blocks of glacial ice from the waters surrounding Greenland and placed them in public spaces across London, where they will be left to melt. Called Ice Watch, the temporary installation is meant to…
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Plutos: Chronicles of the Superrich
Read more: Plutos: Chronicles of the SuperrichTitle 18, Part 1, Chapter 17 of the United States Criminal Code: “Whoever mutilates, cuts, defaces, disfigures, or perforates, or unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt…
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Celebrating the history of black creativity
Read more: Celebrating the history of black creativity“A Tanzanian-born, Preston-based artist, curator and cultural activist, Lubaina Himid aims to ‘fill in the gaps of history’, giving representation to marginalised histories and to what was previously invisible or silenced. Significantly, Himid’s art reinserts black narratives into the forefront…
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Trump Death Clock seeks to bring ‘accountability for reckless leadership’
Read more: Trump Death Clock seeks to bring ‘accountability for reckless leadership’Donald Trump has been accused of personally causing the deaths of 40,000 Americans through his “reckless” handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, in a new website launched on Wednesday under the provocative title Trump Death Clock. The website, created by independent…
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For the People Artists Collective: Virtual Quilt Project
Read more: For the People Artists Collective: Virtual Quilt ProjectDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, two Chicago-based organizations, For the People Artists Collective and Chicago Community Bond Fund, worked together to create Decarcerate Now, a virtual quilt honoring individuals who died of COVID-19 while in the custody of the Cook County…