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Reverse Graffiti
Read more: Reverse GraffitiReverse graffiti is form of street art that involves carving into the dirt and dust that surrounds us. Artists subtract from a surface in order to create a negative image within the positive, often quite dark layer of grime. They…
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AIDS activism through billboards; Untitled (1991)
Read more: AIDS activism through billboards; Untitled (1991)In 1991, Gonzalez-Torres lost his partner Ross to AIDS (the artist would face the same fate in 1996). In a tragic and highly personal tribute to Ross, Gonzalez-Torres took a picture of his still-indented empty bed – an image of…
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The Art And Activism of Nobuko Miyamoto: How She Became One Of LA’s Most Enduring Performers
Read more: The Art And Activism of Nobuko Miyamoto: How She Became One Of LA’s Most Enduring PerformersIn 1972, something unheard of happened on national television. An Asian American singer-songwriter duo was invited to perform on the widely-watched The Mike Douglas Show by guest hosts John Lennon and Yoko Ono. “They’re beautiful singers,” Lennon said in his…
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Poetry of the street and poetry of transparency
Read more: Poetry of the street and poetry of transparency“At the end of 1969, Alain Arias-Misson invited us to join him in a Public Poem project, which he called “A MADRID” (in Madrid, Spain) . If that was not the first “Public Poem” in history, since Alain had experimented…
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Artists got fed up with these ‘anti-homeless spikes.’ So they made them a bit more … comfy.
Read more: Artists got fed up with these ‘anti-homeless spikes.’ So they made them a bit more … comfy.These are called “anti-homeless spikes.” They’re about as friendly as they sound. Photo courtesy of CC BY-ND, Immo Klink and Marco Godoy. As you may have guessed, they’re intended to deter people who are homeless from sitting or sleeping on…
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Tied and Tested: Miles Greenberg’s ‘Sebastian’ and the Art of Endurance
Read more: Tied and Tested: Miles Greenberg’s ‘Sebastian’ and the Art of EnduranceMiles Greenberg is a performance artist from Canada who specializes in time, endurance, and the human body. His art is often complicated and deep into the human experience, with physical endurance mixed into visual metaphors that create deep, profound statements…
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New Beijing, New Marriage: A Milestone Film in China’s LGBTQ Movement
Read more: New Beijing, New Marriage: A Milestone Film in China’s LGBTQ MovementNew Beijing, New Marriage is a documentary shot by Fan Popo, a Chinese gay rights activist in 2009. The film recorded that a gay couple and a lesbian couple, who were volunteers instead of real homosexual couples, were having their…
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Jameela Jamil says she’s ‘not here to be liked’: ‘I am not a trend, I am a human being’
Read more: Jameela Jamil says she’s ‘not here to be liked’: ‘I am not a trend, I am a human being’Jameela Jamil has opened up about how she’s “not here to be liked” in a frank new interview with Meghan Markle. In the latest episode of Archetypes, Meghan’s Spotify podcast, the Duchess speaks with both Jamil and Shohreh Aghdashloo about…
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Public Fruit Jam
Read more: Public Fruit Jam“Fallen Fruit invites the public to bring homegrown or street-picked fruit and collaborate with us in making a collective fruit jams. Working without recipes, we ask people to sit with others they do not already know and negotiate what kind…
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LezFem’s Diary
Read more: LezFem’s DiaryThe current cultural and political context in Macedonia marginalizes lesbians and women in general, and the dominant political party forces the traditional role of the woman, where she is a mother, a housewife, and of course, heterosexual. Furthermore, the major…
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Thousands of Shoes Honor Hurricane Maria’s Victims in San Juan
Read more: Thousands of Shoes Honor Hurricane Maria’s Victims in San JuanWalking the rows of shoes—favorite slippers, old Army boots, gold stilettos—it’s the baby shoes that stop you cold. Shoes began to fill a plaza opposite Puerto Rico’s Capitol building, and by Sunday morning, there were more than 3,000 pairs, a…
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The Illuminator Project
Read more: The Illuminator ProjectTypical mediums of street art include spray paint, stickers and stencils. But mobilized digital media projection has become the latest tool in some activist’s artilleries. Vanguards of this innovative technique include members of The Illuminator project. Created in March 2012,…