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Lady Gaga’s ‘Born This Way’ Is Still Revolutionary
Read more: Lady Gaga’s ‘Born This Way’ Is Still RevolutionaryLady Gaga said something interesting about her song “Born This Way” during a March 2011 interview at Google headquarters. “What’s so funny [is] when I put that song out, everybody was like, ‘Oh, the lyrics are so literal,’ and I’m…
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Intervention #1
Read more: Intervention #158,241 evictions were conducted in Spain in 2011, mostly through real estate speculation by the Mediterranean Savings Bank. In Intervention #1, the artist created a cooperative through which she contracted a construction worker (who himself had been evicted from his…
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The Dreamland Artist Club
Read more: The Dreamland Artist ClubThe Dreamland Artist Club project was named after one of the famous amusement parks in Coney Island. The project consisted of more than 25 artists coming together to repaint rides and make custom signs, murals and scenic backdrops for the…
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Taxi drivers make a caravan protesting against apps “They are stealing our jobs”
Read more: Taxi drivers make a caravan protesting against apps “They are stealing our jobs”Hundreds of taxi drivers gathered together on the streets of Mexico City protesting against Virtual apps like Uber and Cabify. They formed a caravan and stopped the traffic for hours, as a way of denouncing unfair price competition. External sources:…
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The project: Give cameras to people with HIV. The pictures: Joy, grief, desire, hope
Read more: The project: Give cameras to people with HIV. The pictures: Joy, grief, desire, hopeFor artist Vasilios Papapitsios, going public with his HIV status has been gradual. He was diagnosed at age 19, but about three years passed before he wrote an anonymous piece about his experience for a North Carolina zine. He presented…
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Arabian Nights
Read more: Arabian NightsThe development of the Nights from the oriental oral and literary traditions of the Middle Ages into a classical work for Western readers is a fascinating one. The notebook of a Jewish book dealer from Cairo around the year 1150…
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AmplifyHER and AnimateHER
Read more: AmplifyHER and AnimateHERAmplify HER is a visually dynamic, character driven feature documentary that offers intimate access into the lives of numerous emerging female artists. By combining ecstatic energy and feminine artistry, these talented young women in the global electronic music scene are…
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Use Art to heal the world
Read more: Use Art to heal the worldI must first come clean, I studied fine arts in high school from years nine to 12. Since my studies were concluded, I had never held a paintbrush again. Although the teachers were largely inspiring and wonderfully bohemian as one…
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Spec Ops: The Line
Read more: Spec Ops: The LineOften in military style video games we kill without much regard for the enemy. They are faceless or stereotypical, the Nazi or evil Cold War–era Russian. They are enemies that were fought on the battlefields of great wars, or they…
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Emojis to stop teen drinking and drugs
Read more: Emojis to stop teen drinking and drugsThe Partnership for Drug-Free Kids, a national nonprofit dedicated to reducing substance abuse among adolescents, launched a new multimedia campaign for teens that uses emojis to communicate the challenges of negative influences, empowering them to live Above the Influence. The…
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History of Korean Women
Read more: History of Korean WomenIn the series The History of Korean Women, Cho’s suggests that the cost of that gain cannot be paid for by a cultural amnesia masking the pain and suffering of previous generations. Here the semantic emphasis is on the official…
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Teeter-Totter Wall
Read more: Teeter-Totter WallAn installation by architecture studio Rael San Fratello, which connected children in the US and Mexico via a trio of seesaws slotted into the countries’ border wall, has been crowned the Design of the Year. Dubbed the Teeter-Totter Wall, the…