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Manifest Justice
Read more: Manifest JusticeLast August, as protesters marched in Ferguson, Missouri, after the death of Michael Brown, the 18-year-old unarmed teen shot by a police officer, another group of activists began thinking about how to incorporate the creative community into the movement. The…
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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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Drawing the line: meet the Romanian artist-activist tackling world crises one cartoon at a time
Read more: Drawing the line: meet the Romanian artist-activist tackling world crises one cartoon at a timeDan Perjovschi is one of Romania’s foremost artistic voices. Although known as a talented multi-disciplinary artist in his home country, particularly for his early performance work, he is most widely known internationally for his massive drawing installations. Executed directly onto…
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Five Reasons to Unite Against the War on Women
Read more: Five Reasons to Unite Against the War on WomenBy Lauren Barbato, Ms Magazine Blog “I find this onslaught of anti-women legislation repulsive,” says 23-year-old Amanda Velez. “These proposed laws condescend to a level where women are treated as something much less than human.” A resident of Elizabethtown, Kentucky,…
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Art Behind Bars: Prison Art by Soudabeh Ardavan
Read more: Art Behind Bars: Prison Art by Soudabeh ArdavanCharged with participating in demonstrations against the Islamic Republic of Iran, Soudabeh Ardavan was held for eight years (1981-1989) in Iran’s notorious Evin Prison. She found sanity and solace through the forbidden activities of drawing and painting, secretly producing paint…
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TRANSummer Camp and the Ethical Clinic for Gender and Sex Characteristics
Read more: TRANSummer Camp and the Ethical Clinic for Gender and Sex CharacteristicsThe TRANSummer Camp on the Croatian coast inspired members of the Croation trans community to become creative activists, and led to a public media campaign, video series and event advertising the “opening” of a (fake) clinic for trans health. The…
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Reagan has died of AIDS
Read more: Reagan has died of AIDSRonald Reagan was elected President of the United States on November 4, 1980. In less than a year, in the Summer of 1981, AIDS was first identified in medical journals. However, it took until 1987 before he would give his…
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Billionaire-Espionage Art Project
Read more: Billionaire-Espionage Art ProjectThe Hungarian artist, undercover as an oligarch, infiltrated Manhattan’s ultra-luxury high-rises with her fake husband, Zoltan, for a book of intentionally unartful photos. Four years ago, during a three-month artist’s residency in Brooklyn, Andi Schmied, a photographer from Budapest, visited…
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Rainwater art activism
Read more: Rainwater art activismTo raise awareness among the general public about the global clean water crisis, the artist Belo created an image composed of 66,000 cups of colored rainwater simulating levels of impurities found in water all over the planet. This major work…
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Can Reddit Vote Down a Congressman?
Read more: Can Reddit Vote Down a Congressman?By Tim Murphy, Mother Jones When Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) introduced the Stop Online Piracy Act last winter, members of the online community Reddit sprang into action. They called their congressmen, spammed Twitter, and did what they do best: hatched…
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Molson’s newest red beer fridge touts Canada’s multicultural side
Read more: Molson’s newest red beer fridge touts Canada’s multicultural sideThe Globe and Mail Inc. Written by SUSAN KRASHINSKY MARKETING REPORTER TORONTO PUBLISHED JUNE 25, 2015 UPDATED MARCH 25, 2017 This is one persnickety refrigerator. Molson Coors Brewing Co.’s newest instalment of a now two-year campaign is attempting a new…
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BUSHFIRE BRANDALISM – Australia
Read more: BUSHFIRE BRANDALISM – AustraliaThis weekend 41 Artists took to the streets across 3 Australian cities for the nation’s largest unsanctioned art campaign #BushfireBrandalism. The streets of Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane have become the backdrop for the nation’s largest unsanctioned outdoor art exhibition. Organized…