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Ringgold’s art – a visual symphony that harmonizes activism
Read more: Ringgold’s art – a visual symphony that harmonizes activismFaith Ringgold is a successful painter, sculptor, mixed-media artist, author, feminist, and political activist. She is particularly known for her narrative quilts, as she explores identity, race, family ties, as well as cultural and political topics through her many different…
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Female students in Guangzhou protest topless for gender equality
Read more: Female students in Guangzhou protest topless for gender equalityFemale students from the Guangdong University of Technology in Guangzhou called for equal job opportunities and for people to “pay attention to the value of women” while protesting on the school’s campus, shirtless and covered in body paint. The photos,…
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Underrepresentation of Marginalized Women in Spain
Read more: Underrepresentation of Marginalized Women in SpainThe artist I chose to focus on personally is the photographer Cristina Garcia Rodero. I used photos from her photography essay España Oculta, in which Rodero traveled to small villages in Spain to document the resident’s lives. Our group’s main…
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Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate
Read more: Speaking Volumes: Transforming HateThe Creativity Movement (formerly known as the World Church of the Creater) is a self proclaimed white supremacist organization with factions across the United States. In 2004, a high ranking leader of the Montana based faction defected from the group,…
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Brooklyn Bridge Lottery
Read more: Brooklyn Bridge LotteryOn March 24, 1992, a fake inter-office memorandum from the then Mayor of the City of New York, David Dinkins, was leaked to the press. A handwritten Post-it note was attached which read “Thought you might be interested in seeing…
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Autonomous Zones
Read more: Autonomous ZonesAfter winning the parliamentary elections of 2014 Gruevski was accused by the opposition of rigging the elections, which led the latter to boycott the sessions of the legislative. Mass protests followed with the government – though nominally pro-EU and pro-NATO…
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Caged Bird Songs and Other Stories
Read more: Caged Bird Songs and Other StoriesCaged Bird Songs ‘his wings are clipped and his feet are tied’ Maya Angelou believed in empathy as an empowering force in the world. In the time of coronavirus, we find our wings ‘clipped’ in various ways. The lucky among…
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Green Map UAE
Read more: Green Map UAEGreen Map UAE is a place to pin, share, and quite literally, map out locations or events that are unique ecologically, culturally and considered civic resources near home or while traveling within the UAE. This portal, apart of a larger…
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Response to James Cohan Gallery (October 19th, 2017)
Read more: Response to James Cohan Gallery (October 19th, 2017)October 19, 2017 The Chinatown Art Brigade is not surprised that James Cohan gallery’s immediate reaction to Sunday’s organized action would be to cry censorship, and also simultaneously claim that our protest was exactly what their artist intended. In an…
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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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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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Bus Shelter Ads Confront San Francisco Eviction Crisis
Read more: Bus Shelter Ads Confront San Francisco Eviction CrisisThe California Department of Corrections (CDC) has unveiled a new campaign of bus shelter ads to confront San Francisco’s eviction crisis. On February 11, 2014, the CDC successfully apprehended, rehabilitated and discharged bus shelter advertisements throughout San Francisco. The ads…