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“Is it Real? Yes It Is!”
Read more: “Is it Real? Yes It Is!”In recent years, a fashion for painting the human figure has preoccupied the art world, with an emphasis on race, gender and other urgent social issues. Yet another pressing topic in America has been curiously absent from art: abortion, which…
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Sh*t the FBI says
Read more: Sh*t the FBI saysBy Will Potter I tried to resist. I really did. But when I jokingly posted on the Green is the New Red Facebook page that I wanted to make a “Sh*t the FBI Says” video, ya’ll went nuts about the…
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Buffalo 5/14 Survivors Fund
Read more: Buffalo 5/14 Survivors FundOn May 14, 2022, the Buffalo community suffered a devastating act of violence when a gunman opened fire at the Tops Friendly Market on Jefferson Avenue, killing ten people and wounding three. Many have asked how to help. In partnership…
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The Dreamland Artist Club
Read more: The Dreamland Artist ClubThe Dreamland Artist Club project was named after one of the famous amusement parks in Coney Island. The project consisted of more than 25 artists coming together to repaint rides and make custom signs, murals and scenic backdrops for the…
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No More War!
Read more: No More War!I will create a series of paintings with acrylics on canvas size 15″ x 19″. The subject of my art works will be the futility and immorality of modern warfare. External sources:
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Occupiers Set Up Living Room in Bank of America Lobby
Read more: Occupiers Set Up Living Room in Bank of America LobbyA crew of occupiers makes a home of a Bank of Americalobby with a couch, a coffee table, a rug and a pottedplant. “Bank of America took our homes so we though we’dmove in here!” External sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUzMLu4K_2o
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Dialogue
Read more: DialogueThe China Project: – An Artist in her Gun in 1989: Xiao Lu’s Accidental Revolt: It was February 5, 1989, and the opening day of the China Avant-Garde exhibition at Beijing’s National Art Museum was a madhouse. Performance artists had…
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Vivienne Westwood: Fashion and Activism
Read more: Vivienne Westwood: Fashion and ActivismVivienne Westwood began designing in 1971 along with her then partner Malcolm McLaren in London. At the time, they used their shop at 430 Kings Road, London, to showcase their ideas and designs. With their changing ideas of fashion came…
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José Bové dismantles a McDonald’s
Read more: José Bové dismantles a McDonald’sJosé Bové, a sheep farmer/activist in Aveyron in the Midi-Pyrénées region of France, is a modern day Astérix, a mythical Gaul who drubbed foreign intruders centuries ago. In Bové’s case, the intruder was McDonald’s, the American fast food chain. On…
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How Mexico Formed A United National Identity Through Art
Read more: How Mexico Formed A United National Identity Through Art“Beginning in 1910, the Mexican Revolution spawned a cultural renaissance, inspiring artists to look inward in search of a specifically Mexican artistic language. This visual vocabulary was designed to transcend the realm of the arts and give a national identity…
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In Mexico, Women Go on Strike Nationwide to Protest Violence
Read more: In Mexico, Women Go on Strike Nationwide to Protest ViolenceMEXICO CITY — Tens of thousands of women vanished from streets, offices and classrooms across Mexico on Monday, part of a nationwide strike to protest the violence they suffer and to demand government action against it. The women’s absence from…
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Seaspiracy
Read more: Seaspiracy“Seaspiracy, a documentary-styled film released on Netflix this week, intends to shock, and on that count it succeeds. The 90-minute exposé shows ocean pollution and its vast effects on marine life; it displays grotesque images of dolphins and whales being…