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The Many Faces of Yue Minjun
Read more: The Many Faces of Yue MinjunBy NAZANIN LANKARANI PARIS — Five years after his rise to the top of the Chinese contemporary art market, Yue Minjun has something new to smile about. Best known for his large-scale paintings depicting his own smiling face, Mr. Yue,…
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Chinese AIDS activist Gao Yaojie
Read more: Chinese AIDS activist Gao YaojieGao Yaojie (Chinese: 高耀潔, Gao Yaojie; 19 December 1927 – 10 December 2023) was a Chinese gynecologist, academic, and AIDS activist based in Zhengzhou, Henan, China. Gao was honoured for her work by the United Nations and Western organizations whilst…
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The Crossroads Project
Read more: The Crossroads Project“The mandate for great and difficult achievement is manifest in the message coming from the science of sustainability and climate change. Yet information alone will not take us where we need to go; science needs the arts to compel a…
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Support Breasts, Not Dictators
Read more: Support Breasts, Not DictatorsBarbed-wire bra protest over Burma investment BBC News Monday, 10 December, 2001 Triumph International, a leading European luxury lingerie firm, is facing a fierce boycott campaign because of its operations in Burma. Under the slogan “Support Breasts – not Dictators”,…
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Un-dividing the House
Read more: Un-dividing the HouseAbout 6 months before the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, installation artist Marc Thompson began conceptualizing and constructing an installation that would reflect the absurdities of the divided city. Thompson´s work was part of the Ressource Kunst…
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Immigrant Yarn Project
Read more: Immigrant Yarn ProjectThe Immigrant Yarn Project (IYP), organized and created by Cindy Weil was a massive work of public and democratic (crowd-sourced), yarn-based art honoring our immigrant heritage and promoting tolerance, difference, and community. Weil reached out across the state and beyond…
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The Arte Útil Archive
Read more: The Arte Útil ArchiveThe Arte Útil archive presents a growing archive of over two hundred case studies that imagine, create and implement beneficial outcomes by producing tactics that change how we act in society. Whether through self-organised groups, individual initiatives or the rise…
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Turning a public toilet into a spa
Read more: Turning a public toilet into a spaFor three days, Ruben Santiago installed, without any official authorization, a hydro-massage shower in a public bathroom in the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona. The installation also made available to users bath gel, shampoo and towels that were regularly replaced. The…
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Printing a Revolution: The Posters of Paris ’68
Read more: Printing a Revolution: The Posters of Paris ’68During the major strikes and student uprisings in France that year, the École des Beaux-Arts turned itself into a workshop for revolutionary messages. PARIS — Fifty years ago, almost to the day, students here began to strike over the rigidity…
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2015 Die-In Protest Against Gender Violence
Read more: 2015 Die-In Protest Against Gender ViolenceOn September 2nd 2015, a die-in protest to advocate against gender violence was carried out by a group called Women in Black (Olmedilla, 2015). This form of protest was likely inspired by other die-in protests in Spain and represented Spanish…
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Moving Mural
Read more: Moving MuralA Moving Mural bursts a singular visual message into action. The outline of a design is decided upon by the participants of an event. For the “She’s the First” conference in New York City that supports young women the world…
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Garbage Collectors
Read more: Garbage CollectorsAfrika ARTS Kollective is a group of artists that decided to face Uganda’s demographic growth and the garbage problem of the capital, Kamala, with art. 30,000 tons of residues come out of this monthly and the Administration is being working…