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Climate strikes continue online: ‘We want to keep the momentum going’
Read more: Climate strikes continue online: ‘We want to keep the momentum going’The large crowds and brightly coloured placards of the school climate strikes became some of the defining images of 2019. “There would be lots of chanting and the energy was always amazing,” says Dominique Palmer, a 20-year-old climate activist from…
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Homeless Art Gallery
Read more: Homeless Art GalleryDuring 2008-2009, when the United States was entering a recession, the idea of the Homeless Art Gallery was popping up across Staten Island, New York City’s least populated borough and biggest underdog. This is an example of art intervention, disrupting…
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Christine Sun Kim
Read more: Christine Sun KimFor artist Christine Sun Kim, sound is a “ghost.” The multiple-MFA-holding Senior TED Fellow who has had a Whitney Museum residency and exhibited at MoMA, has been profoundly deaf since birth. The sonic hush in which she lives has pushed…
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Silence = Death
Read more: Silence = DeathThis is a prime example of the marriage of art and activism. The Silence = Death poster is simple but extremely powerful representation of the obstacles the AIDS movement was facing (suppression of gay people + their problems, lack of…
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Tactical Ice Cream Unit – Selling Ice Cream, With Sprinkles of Anarchism
Read more: Tactical Ice Cream Unit – Selling Ice Cream, With Sprinkles of AnarchismBy COREY KILGANNON There was something odd about the ice cream truck that pulled up to the curb on Park Avenue near 67th Street on Friday, with its proletarian color scheme and its overdressed driver with the subversive grin. He…
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Djerbahood
Read more: DjerbahoodDjerbahood Project, which took place during the months of July and August on a small island called Djerba and is located in the Gulf of Gabes. Better known as the island of dreams, the tiny village of Djerba boasts a…
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The Sacred Art of Ori
Read more: The Sacred Art of OriThe story of an artist. Laolu Senbanjo grew up surrounded by the culture and mythology of the Yoruba, an ethnic group from the southwest of Nigeria, but he never imagined how it would influence the artist he is today. After…
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Ai Weiwei on the project that awoke his political voice – The Start podcast
Read more: Ai Weiwei on the project that awoke his political voice – The Start podcastIn 2008, an earthquake devastated Sichuan province in China, claiming the lives of more than 69,000 people. Following accusations from parents that substandard construction caused the collapse of schools across in the region, the artist Ai Weiwei set upon a…
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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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Vacated
Read more: VacatedVacated reverse engineers Google Street View to highlight the changing landscape of various neighborhoods throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn. The project finds buildings constructed in the past four years using the NYC Department of City Planning’s PLUTO dataset, and it leverages…
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Fake Drone Crash on UCSD Campus
Read more: Fake Drone Crash on UCSD CampusStudents at the University of California-San Diego were surprised when an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, commonly referred to as a drone, crashed in the middle of campus — or at least they thought that’s what happened. A photo of a drone…
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Dancing in Syria
Read more: Dancing in SyriaIn Protests, Syrians Find the Spark of Creativity By NEIL MacFARQUHAR, New York Times BEIRUT, Lebanon — You could call it the dance-athon to dislodge a despot. Among protesters across the Arab world, Syrians —particularly the restive residents of Homs…