Main Gallery
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Western Flag (Spingletop,Texas) 2017
Read more: Western Flag (Spingletop,Texas) 2017Western Flag depicts the site of the ‘Lucas Gusher’ – the world’s first major oil find – in Spindletop, Texas in 1901, now barren and exhausted. The site is recreated as a digital simulation the center of which is marked…
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1-800-273-8255
Read more: 1-800-273-8255Rapper Logic’s song “1-800-273-8255” may have helped prevent a significant number of suicides around the time of its release, according to a study published Monday. The song’s title is the phone number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. The study,…
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Chinese Artist Creates Hall Of Fame Portraits Of Corrupt Officials
Read more: Chinese Artist Creates Hall Of Fame Portraits Of Corrupt OfficialsChinese Artist Zhang Bingjian has embarked on an artistic project to promote transparency in China and Chinese government. His motivation? Discovering the extent of the corruption going on in his country. Zhang told the Toronto Star: “The chief prosecutor announced…
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Grandmas resignifying public space
Read more: Grandmas resignifying public spaceThis project consisted of an articulation between research, public policy and art. Corpovisionarios por Colombia was implementing a social change initiative in one of the poorest and most violents neighborhoods in Cali, Colombia. The demographic information showed that the most…
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Yes, the Climate is Changing
Read more: Yes, the Climate is ChangingYes, the Climate is Changing Video: People around the world show how climate change is already affecting their lives. [see external link or YouTube> People Everywhere Connect the Dots on Climate Change] The effects of climate change come in many…
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Protest Outside UK Asylum-Seeker Hotel Ends in 15 Arrests
Read more: Protest Outside UK Asylum-Seeker Hotel Ends in 15 ArrestsLONDON (AP) — An anti-migration protest outside a hotel housing asylum-seekers in northwest England turned violent and resulted in the arrests of 15 people, local police said Saturday. The Merseyside Police department said a police officer and two civilians sustained…
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In ‘Faith Ringgold: American People’ at the MCA, an African American artist’s decades of work get their due
Read more: In ‘Faith Ringgold: American People’ at the MCA, an African American artist’s decades of work get their dueFaith Ringgold, the 93-year-old doyenne of African American art, a trailblazing master who foreshadowed the recent rise of art activism and Black figuration, is having her first solo museum show in Chicago. An electrifying and illuminating retrospective, “Faith Ringgold: American…
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When I Walk
Read more: When I WalkI love New York. When I was younger, the city was my playground. You could find me on any given weekend catching brunch with a friend at a café, going to an East Village restaurant for dinner, and then hopping…
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Clarion Alley Mural Project
Read more: Clarion Alley Mural ProjectThe Mission of CAMP is to support and produce socially engaged and aesthetically diverse public art as a grassroots community-based, artist-run organization based in San Francisco. Clarion Alley Mural Project is a fiscally sponsored project of Independent Arts & Media.…
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In Photos: The True Cost of the Tar Sands
Read more: In Photos: The True Cost of the Tar SandsIn Photos: The True Cost of the Tar Sands Conservation photographer Garth Lenz’s exhibition seeks to show the impact of tar sands oil extraction. go to => https://youtu.be/84zIj_EdQdM Garth Lenz is an award winning conservation photographer whose work has been…
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Seaspiracy
Read more: Seaspiracy“Passionate about ocean life, a filmmaker sets out to document the harm that humans do to marine species – and uncovers alarming global corruption.” External sources: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14152756/
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MASK art exhibit
Read more: MASK art exhibit“MASK” is an art exhibition that explores the uses and meanings of masks, and ones feelings about them. Masks throughout history have taken many forms and have served many purposes. They have been used in construction, scientific research, technical manufacturing,…