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How Song Dong’s “Waste Not” Elicited Much Sympathy
Read more: How Song Dong’s “Waste Not” Elicited Much SympathySong Dong’s Waste Not consisted of a single installation comprising over 10,000 commonplace, domestic items of daily life that had been used and amassed by the artist’s mother (Zhao Xiangyuan) over fifty years. The shabby and sometimes thread bare items…
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‘Not Yours’
Read more: ‘Not Yours’“My image was inspired by the #MeToo Revolution, my personal experiences with the male gaze and a healthy amount of frustration and repulsion. What I hope to convey in this image is the sense of verbal, physical and energetic male…
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What Kind of Man are You?
Read more: What Kind of Man are You?The series “No Violence Against Women” depicts famous cartoon couples transformed into victims of abuse. The women are left bloodied and with black eyes with the slogan “What Kind of Man are You?” above. The images are a commentary on…
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Rat Row
Read more: Rat RowA fat cat, a pig wearing a top hat and five rats. All seven inflatables faced the 34th Street entrance of the Empire State Building last Thursday, two weeks into a protest by members of Laborers Local 79 who rallied,…
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Buses in Seoul install ‘comfort women’ statues to honour former sex slaves
Read more: Buses in Seoul install ‘comfort women’ statues to honour former sex slavesBuses serving several routes in central Seoul have acquired a new and highly controversial passenger: a barefoot “comfort woman”, wearing a traditional hanbok dress with her hands resting on her knees. Appearing on the front seat of buses in the…
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UCT Students Strip Down to Highlight Concerns Over Rape Culture
Read more: UCT Students Strip Down to Highlight Concerns Over Rape CultureStudents have accused university management of having a lack of concern about the issue. CAPE TOWN – University of Cape Town (UCT) students have stripped to their underwear to highlight their concerns over rape culture on campus. Dozens of students…
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‘Once in a generation moment’ — Zelensky, Ukraine’s partners gather for key London summit after White House fallout
Read more: ‘Once in a generation moment’ — Zelensky, Ukraine’s partners gather for key London summit after White House falloutUkraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, French President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, and other top Western officials gathered on March 2 for a London summit to discuss support for Kyiv. They are among the…
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Protesters Occupy Brooklyn Museum Atrium, Demanding Decolonization Commission
Read more: Protesters Occupy Brooklyn Museum Atrium, Demanding Decolonization CommissionOn Sunday, April 29, dozens of protesters occupied the Beaux-Arts Court at the Brooklyn Museum as they reiterated demands for a decolonization commission, about which the art institution has remained silent. The calls for the commission come after the criticisms…
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Animal activists celebrate as Lawrence blocks chicken art project
Read more: Animal activists celebrate as Lawrence blocks chicken art projectFebruary 29, 2012 The Kansas City Star By Jessica Blakeborough The chickens have been granted a stay of execution. City codes prevent Amber Hansen, a Lawrence artist, from displaying and then butchering chickens for an art project, a city official…
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In the Raw: The Female Gaze on the Nude
Read more: In the Raw: The Female Gaze on the NudeFor centuries, (male) artists have perpetuated a relatively consistent image of the female nude: She’s soft, willowy, and docile. Sensual but not sexually aggressive. Flirtatious but not confrontational. She’s not quite a human but, mediated through the lens of a…
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Shh
Read more: ShhA street photography exhibition located in Beijing’s most crowded tourist attractions, Dongsi Hutong, to get a voice the Chinese government’s censorship of art works in public space. To hedge the city’s regulation , the human body photography were displayed in…
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The Milk Truck
Read more: The Milk TruckThe Milk Truck is a combination of guerrilla theatre, activism and slapstick humour. When a woman finds herself in a situation where she is discouraged, harassed, or unwelcome to breastfeed her baby in public, she contacts The Milk Truck. The…