Main Gallery
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Nihilist subway performances
Read more: Nihilist subway performancesThe latest episode in Nicolas Heller’s documentary web series “No Your City,” as published by Gothamist, features the arguably pretentious, inarguably earnest street performer Kalan Sherrard, who was recently arrested during his peaceful anarchist puppet show. Functioning as a video…
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Decolonize this Museum: Anti-Columbus Day Tour Attended by Hundreds at the American Museum of Natural History
Read more: Decolonize this Museum: Anti-Columbus Day Tour Attended by Hundreds at the American Museum of Natural HistoryAbout: Hundreds of people came out to attend a decolonization tour of one of New York’s most popular museums. Written by Elena Goukassian on October 10, 2017 Protesters try to encircle the Roosevelt statue in front of the American Museum…
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Cabaret Con-Sensual
Read more: Cabaret Con-Sensual“Cabaret Con-Sensual is an effort comprised of actors, dancers, comedians, producers, writers, and other artists who strive to champion consent and discuss rape-culture through the subversive, yet expressive medium of the performing arts.” The show was created by Bitsy La…
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A Haunting Artistic Tribute to Garment Workers Killed in Bangladesh and the US
Read more: A Haunting Artistic Tribute to Garment Workers Killed in Bangladesh and the USNORTHFIELD, Minn. — Exactly 1,281 white garments hang from the ceiling of the Perlman Teaching Museum’s Braucher Gallery. The collared shirts, knit sweaters, tights, and other items of clothing glow with an eerie luminosity. The 1,281 garments represent the number…
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Jesus: Creative Activist
Read more: Jesus: Creative ActivistRegardless of one’s spiritual ties (or lack thereof) to Christianity, all artistic activists can take a note or two from Jesus’s playbook–the actions of “a radical Mediterranean Jewish peasant building a revolutionary movement two millennia ago.” 1. Jesus: Media Mogul. …
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Art as therapy: Swiss doctors prescribe museum visits
Read more: Art as therapy: Swiss doctors prescribe museum visitsSwiss doctors are expanding the range of prescriptions for patients with mental health conditions and chronic illnesses to include strolls in public gardens, art galleries and museums. The city of Neuchatel, in western Switzerland, launched the pilot project with doctors…
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WILD: Act I – Ballet + Criminal Justice Reform
Read more: WILD: Act I – Ballet + Criminal Justice Reform“WILD: Act I” is a film demonstrating the power of creativity in constraint. Using moving choreography performed by Elijah Lancaster and vivid imagery displayed on three walls in a mock cell, Jeremy McQueen gives voice to young Black and Brown…
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TIME OF THE POET:Second Name of Earth is PEACE.
Read more: TIME OF THE POET:Second Name of Earth is PEACE.MOTHER EARTH is broken from incessant decadent wars carelessly perpetuated by mindless ,vicious political imbeciles. Our natural wealth plundered by greedy ,gluttonous economic dare-devils, imbibing crude oil and fresh blood . Warlord-ism set the suns of our freedom, our earth…
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Women of Allah
Read more: Women of AllahShirin Neshat’s Women of Allah is a photographic series exploring the complex identities of Muslim women in post-revolutionary Iran. Combining black-and-white portraits, Persian calligraphy, and symbolic elements such as guns and veils, Neshat interrogates themes of martyrdom, violence, femininity, and…
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Emojis to stop teen drinking and drugs
Read more: Emojis to stop teen drinking and drugsThe Partnership for Drug-Free Kids, a national nonprofit dedicated to reducing substance abuse among adolescents, launched a new multimedia campaign for teens that uses emojis to communicate the challenges of negative influences, empowering them to live Above the Influence. The…
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Smuggling Books Across The Border
Read more: Smuggling Books Across The BorderFor the People Artists Collective is a collaborative network of radical artists of color in Chicago. #ForThePeopleFriday: Each Friday, we will be sharing artwork by one of our members. Today, we are featuring Leila Abdelrazaq, a Chicago-based Palestinian artist, whose…
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We Animals
Read more: We AnimalsWe Animals is an ambitious project which documents, through photography, animals in the human environment. Humans are as much animal as the sentient beings we use for food, clothing, research, experimentation, work, entertainment, slavery and companionship. With this as its…