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Horrible bosses: masked activists publicly shame businesses in Bologna
Read more: Horrible bosses: masked activists publicly shame businesses in BolognaOn a warm summer afternoon in the Italian city of Bologna, a group of around 15 young people march through the crowded city centre to a high-end pastry shop in Strada Maggiore. Once there, they don white plastic masks, and…
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Up Against the Wall: Art, Activism and the AIDS Poster
Read more: Up Against the Wall: Art, Activism and the AIDS PosterUp Against the Wall: Art, Activism, and the AIDS Poster is the traveling version of the first major exhibition devoted to the University of Rochester’s collection of HIV/AIDS-related posters. It illustrates to a broad audience that “AIDS affects everyone” and…
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This Taiwanese Calligrapher Brings a Message of Freedom to the Met
Read more: This Taiwanese Calligrapher Brings a Message of Freedom to the MetThe boulders hiding in the alcove of Tong Yang-Tze’s apartment testify to this Taiwanese calligrapher’s daunting perfectionism. They are paper — remnants of discarded artworks, crumpled together like used tissues and soaked into inky wads of pulp. Hundreds of old…
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Not All Like That
Read more: Not All Like ThatJohn Shore and his wife Catherine had been attending the First Presbyterian Church of San Diego for six years when they were nominated to serve as deacons. But before they could be ordained, they were asked to sign a document…
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Europe’s First Underwater Museum Offers A Stark Reminder of the Refugee Crisis
Read more: Europe’s First Underwater Museum Offers A Stark Reminder of the Refugee CrisisStrap into your scuba gear — this museum is worth it. Installation began on Museo Atlantico — the latest project of underwater sculptor James deCaires Taylor — this week, 14 meters underwater in Lanzarote, one of the Spain’s Canary Islands…
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Sixth Annual NYC Feminist Zinefest
Read more: Sixth Annual NYC Feminist Zinefest“The Feminist Zine Fest showcases the work of artists and zine makers of all genders who identify on the feminist spectrum, and whose politics are reflected in their work. For the second consecutive year, Barnard proudly hosts the zine fest,…
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Teeter-Totter Wall, 2019
Read more: Teeter-Totter Wall, 2019hot pink see-saws installed along the US-Mexico border where one person on each side can sit and see-saw with the other. installed at Sunland Park, nine miles northwest of El Paso, on the 18 feet slats border wall between Mexico…
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No nos vamos, nos echan
Read more: No nos vamos, nos echanThe “no nos vamos, nos echan” campaign speaks to making the invisible visible through pictures, videos and global mass demonstrations. Hopefully the Spanish government and other political players in Spain and Europe will see the faces of the population forced…
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MyPolarIce
Read more: MyPolarIceMyPolarIce sells small pieces of polar ice at a popup store in Museum Square Amsterdam. External sources: https://www.mypolarice.com/
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May Day Occupation at Guggenheim
Read more: May Day Occupation at GuggenheimAt noon today, a group of artists and activists including members of the Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction (known as G.U.L.F.) unfurled a large parachute in the atrium of the Guggenheim Museum, demanding to meet with a member of the institution’s…
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“Human Cost” Oily Protest at the Tate
Read more: “Human Cost” Oily Protest at the TateOn the one-year anniversary of the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, artist-activists at Liberate Tate staged a guerrilla performance in the Tate Britain galleries to highlight the museum’s ties to BP. The peformance: “A naked member…
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Mama’s Day Our Way
Read more: Mama’s Day Our WayBy Latoya Peterson, Racialicious Looking for a way to celebrate the folks who raised you–but from a slightly different perspective than you would get down at Hallmark? The good people over at Strong Families (a project of Forward Together/Asian Communities…