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Lagos in the Red
Read more: Lagos in the RedMade by Danish filmmakers Lotte Løvholm, Karen Andersen & Nanna Nielsen, Lagos in the Red follows Nigerian performance artist Jelili Atiku. Atiku uses his body as a prop as a means of sensitizing people to the problems that Nigeria –…
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Namo Nazi
Read more: Namo NaziNamo Nazi Namo Nazi is a group which is dedicated to the cause of spreading awareness about fascism. They create anti-fascist T-Shirts and say this about themselves: “One AntiFascist T-shirt is Worth a Thousand Votes. Please Buy Two. We design…
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Trump Braille Art
Read more: Trump Braille ArtA blind artist has unveiled an image of Donald Trump in Braille dots, which spell out his conversation with Secret Service agents following the assassination attempt in July 2024. Seconds after the shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, agents tried to move…
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COVID-19 RELIEF FUND TO GIVE $10 MILLION TO ARTISTS
Read more: COVID-19 RELIEF FUND TO GIVE $10 MILLION TO ARTISTSA coalition of more than twenty national arts funders has launched an emergency relief fund that will provide millions of dollars to artists struggling financially in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States, which has more than…
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Tate Modern considers activists’ wind turbine for art collection
Read more: Tate Modern considers activists’ wind turbine for art collectionTate Modern considers activists’ wind turbine for art collection: Liberate Tate, an art collective who object to BP sponsorship, have offered the 16 metre turbine blade to the gallery A 1.5 tonne, 16.5 metre-long wind turbine blade carried last month…
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Education for all in Public Space
Read more: Education for all in Public SpaceIf you headed into the West 4th St. Subway Station on March 9, 2014, you may have seen a group of people writing on cardboard, taping it to the walls, and seemingly holding a small class in the underground space.…
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Queer Crisis (4.25.2014)
Read more: Queer Crisis (4.25.2014)An intervention created by the April 25 2015 Queer Crisis Collective organized by the Helix Queer Performance Network (HQPN), and part of an ongoing queer resistance project mentored by Avram Finkelstein. Over a period of 2 weekends, 8 artists met…
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Bristol Activists Use Street Art to Fight Gentrification
Read more: Bristol Activists Use Street Art to Fight GentrificationThe People’s Republic of Stokes Croft is using street art to preserve the identity of Bristol’s most culturally diverse neighbourhood. PRSC began by opening up spaces for street art throughout the neighbourhood, providing a counterweight to the advertising images that…
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11,541 Empty Chairs
Read more: 11,541 Empty ChairsEmpty chairs were laid out in Sarajevo today in honour of the 11,541 people killed in the city during the Bosnian war which began exactly 20 years ago. The seats – lined up along the city’s main street – were…
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Sad Girl Theory
Read more: Sad Girl TheoryDuring a moment when the facade of social media seems to be cracking, it’s easy to look to Instagram stars and wonder what’s real and what’s fake. Last month, Essena O’Neill, the Australian teenager who racked up more than half…
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Man at the Crossroads
Read more: Man at the CrossroadsIn 1932, Rivera was commissioned by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and her husband John D. Rockefeller Jr. to paint a mural for the lobby of Rockefeller Center. Rivera kept the original, approved plan for the two outer sides of the mural…
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CONVICTED KILLER WINS BEAUTY PAGEANT IN WOMEN’S PRISON
Read more: CONVICTED KILLER WINS BEAUTY PAGEANT IN WOMEN’S PRISONIn its thirteenth year, the annual Miss Talavera Bruce beauty pageant is held in unlikely surroundings: a women’s prison in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Instituto Penal Talavera is the only maximum-security women’s prison in the city with inmates serving…