Main Gallery
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Syria: Third Space
Read more: Syria: Third SpaceThis exhibition is a collection of work by displaced Syrian artists. With the support of the British Council, ‘Syria: Third Space’ demonstrates the roles that artists play in supporting recovery and resilience. It seeks to show how artists can break…
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Sweden to tighten gun control laws after deadly shooting
Read more: Sweden to tighten gun control laws after deadly shootingThe government will introduce more rigorous vetting procedures for firearms licences and restrict access to semi-automatic weapons. Sweden plans to toughen controls on gun ownership after its deadliest mass shooting in at least a century. A gunman with legitimate licences…
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Hong Kong Apple Store met with protest over supply chain violations on iPhone 6 launch day
Read more: Hong Kong Apple Store met with protest over supply chain violations on iPhone 6 launch dayApple implemented improved reservation procedures and policies for employees dealing with the iPhone 6 launch at retail stores on September 19th, 2014, but the launch at the company’s Hong Kong store hadn’t gone quite as smooth as elsewhere. The store…
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Borrando la Frontera (Erasing the Border)
Read more: Borrando la Frontera (Erasing the Border)In Borrando la Frontera (Erasing the Border)”, Ana Teresa confronted the fence between the United States and Mexico by putting on her black dress and heels and painting the fence sky blue. On first viewing, the performance makes a simple…
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Artists Buy Trump Campaign Bus on Craigslist, Turn It Into Anti-Trump Art Project
Read more: Artists Buy Trump Campaign Bus on Craigslist, Turn It Into Anti-Trump Art ProjectTwo artists have repurposed the presidential candidate’s campaign bus in order to critique his controversial views. In October 2015, the artists David Gleeson and Mary Mihelic purchased a Donald Trump tour bus on Craigslist. It was the start of an…
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Art Inspection notices
Read more: Art Inspection noticesBogus building inspection notices with the forged signature of city Building Inspection Director Frank Chiu appeared on buildings in San Francisco’s South of Market area, prompting an investigation by exasperated city officials. Project LOFT, as posted in July 2000: “In…
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Tech and Bodies
Read more: Tech and BodiesFilip Custic (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain 1993) works across photography, performance and video to address themes around identity, body and our relationship with technology. Mirrors and screens are a recurring features, a reference to our age of image-obsession and…
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Lady Gaga Delivers Emotional Performance of ‘Til It Happens to You’ at the 2016 Oscars
Read more: Lady Gaga Delivers Emotional Performance of ‘Til It Happens to You’ at the 2016 Oscarshttps://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/lady-gaga-performs-til-it-h… External sources: https://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/lady-gaga-performs-til-it-happens-t…
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Refugees tell their stories by starring in Danish ballet
Read more: Refugees tell their stories by starring in Danish balletAs Denmark moves to deter refugees from crossing its borders, a new theater production dramatizing their plight seeks to change how many in the country perceive their new neighbors. Uropa: An Asylum-Seeker’s Ballet, [is] a dance piece performed in part…
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Invisible Homeless
Read more: Invisible HomelessArtist Luke Jerram created a genderless sleeping figure made of glass lying on a piece of cardboard and exhibited in the streets of London. The artist said in an interview “For every person you see sleeping on the streets, there…
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Puppetry is the sum of the collective human imaginary
Read more: Puppetry is the sum of the collective human imaginaryThe veteran Malian master puppeteer Yaya Coulibali, born in 1959 in the village of Koula, around 100 kilometres north-east of Bamako, has more than half a century of experience in puppetry and has toured the world to perform his art.…
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Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Snake
Read more: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little SnakeNatalie Ball’s work challenges dominant stories of Native American identities, taking to task the historical and visual legacies that misrepresent what it means to be “Indian.” She dives deeply into Indigenous histories and forms of knowledge, the use of language,…