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Everything She Says Means Everything
Read more: Everything She Says Means EverythingCalling all feminist activists, nudists, Cleveland-based Democrats, and people overdue for a laundry day. Photographer Spencer Tunick is looking for 100 bold women to pose nude for a Cleveland-based photo shoot on July 17, 2016. Also — you’ll be baring…
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Tamir Rice legacy shows how artists can sensitively engage with racially charged history
Read more: Tamir Rice legacy shows how artists can sensitively engage with racially charged historyCLEVELAND, Ohio – Dana Schutz, the acclaimed New York artist who trained at the Cleveland Institute of Art, famously stirred controversy at the 2017 Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art with “Open Casket,’’ her painting depicting Emmett Till’s…
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Fake Drone Crash on UCSD Campus
Read more: Fake Drone Crash on UCSD CampusStudents at the University of California-San Diego were surprised when an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, commonly referred to as a drone, crashed in the middle of campus — or at least they thought that’s what happened. A photo of a drone…
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Banksy in Brooklyn
Read more: Banksy in BrooklynEnterprising Brooklyn men CHARGING people to see the new NYC Banksy street art by hiding it behind cardboard. Some men in the tough Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York decided to charge admission when a Banksy piece showed up on…
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Google Street Art Project
Read more: Google Street Art ProjectGoogle entered the art game in 2011 with the introduction of its Art Project, working with 17 museums and expanding further to over 150 institutions in 2012. Last June, Google added 5,000 images of street art from around the world…
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#HateIsAVirus
Read more: #HateIsAVirusActivists fighting coronavirus-driven hate crimes are rallying on social media to turn masks into a symbol, rather than a target in racist attacks Jeff Elder Apr 6, 2020, 2:03 PM Activists against COVID-19-related hate crimes are leading a social media…
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Amazon May Day Strike
Read more: Amazon May Day StrikeEssential workers at major companies like Amazon, Instacart, and Target across the United States on Friday protested for better safety protections, working conditions, and pay during the coronavirus pandemic. The event attracted considerable media attention and political support, pushing companies…
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Hundreds of Pro-Palestine Protestors Stage Events at MoMA and Brooklyn Museum
Read more: Hundreds of Pro-Palestine Protestors Stage Events at MoMA and Brooklyn MuseumAs the conflict between Israel and Hamas continues, hundreds of people gathered inside the Museum of Modern Art and outside of the Brooklyn Museum on Saturday for protests. Images and videos posted on Instagram show several banners unfurled inside MoMA’s…
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The story behind the strange 8th Ave. subway statues and the cartoons that inspired them
Read more: The story behind the strange 8th Ave. subway statues and the cartoons that inspired themAt the Eighth Avenue subway station, sewer alligators are not an urban legend. Anyone who’s been through the 14th St./Eighth Ave. station has probably seen the bronze gator sculpture — and probably wondered what it means and why it’s there.…
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Use Art to heal the world
Read more: Use Art to heal the worldI must first come clean, I studied fine arts in high school from years nine to 12. Since my studies were concluded, I had never held a paintbrush again. Although the teachers were largely inspiring and wonderfully bohemian as one…
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MicCheckWallSt Fourth of July Money Drop
Read more: MicCheckWallSt Fourth of July Money DropOn July 4, 2012, several members of MicCheckWallSt, a subsidiary group of Seattle’s larger Occupy Wall Street that formed in December, 2011, anonymously checked into a room at the historic Roosevelt Hotel in Downtown Seattle. From the 20th floor they…
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Find the Future
Read more: Find the FutureFind the Future: The Game is a pioneering, interactive experience created especially for NYPL’s Centennial by famed game designer Jane McGonigal, with Natron Baxter and Playmatics. Through a once-in-a-lifetime, overnight adventure played inside the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, and an…