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Artists Tried to Activate Voters With Billboard Art. Did It Work?
Read more: Artists Tried to Activate Voters With Billboard Art. Did It Work?On Nov. 6, the day after the presidential election, the artist Hank Willis Thomas was at his studio in Brooklyn. His production assistants were poring over tables strewed with blobby red white and blue silk-screen prints of the words “Fragile/…
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#IRUNWITHAHMAUD
Read more: #IRUNWITHAHMAUDThe running world will come together for a virtual run on Friday, May 8, to celebrate and honor the life of Ahmaud Arbery, who was reportedly shot and killed while out on a run on February 23. According to a…
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Climate Protesters Target NYC’s Iconic “Charging Bull” in Earth Day Protest
Read more: Climate Protesters Target NYC’s Iconic “Charging Bull” in Earth Day ProtestClimate activists took to the iconic “Charging Bull” sculpture in Manhattan’s Financial District on Earth Day today, April 22, to call out Wall Street’s “bullshit” in the face of a worsening environmental crisis — quite literally, by installing a display…
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Power: From the Mouths of the Occupied
Read more: Power: From the Mouths of the OccupiedStatistics are easy to remove ourselves from. A story, you are implicated in, and you have to choose what side you are going to be on. Patrisse developed Power: From the Mouths of the Occupied in 2015 while she was…
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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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Politaoke
Read more: Politaoke“Politaoke is non-partisan political karaoke project in which participants can respeak real contemporary political speeches from local, national and international politicians. Now you too can deliver the great rhetoric filled speeches of today’s most important politicians in this audience participation…
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The Value Menu
Read more: The Value MenuThis is continued exploration of some work I recently had published for a culture jam project in response to the documentary “The Corporation”. There are a lot of layers working here. There are thoughts about food deserts, how multinational corporations…
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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…
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Global Citizen Festival Expands to India
Read more: Global Citizen Festival Expands to IndiaJay Z, Coldplay and the Bollywood star Aamir Khan will join forces in India this fall as the Global Citizen Festival expands internationally. The charity concert, overseen by the Global Poverty Project, will be held at the MMRDA Grounds in…
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Through Site-Specific Spectacle, Aerial Artist Jo Kreiter Is Exposing the Human Toll of the Prison System
Read more: Through Site-Specific Spectacle, Aerial Artist Jo Kreiter Is Exposing the Human Toll of the Prison System“There is a tragic timeliness to Flyaway Productions’ Meet Us Quickly With Your Mercy. As the nation grapples with systemic racism and police brutality, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic, choreographer Jo Kreiter’s new aerial work seeks to amplify the…
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Act Now – Our House Is Flooding
Read more: Act Now – Our House Is FloodingIn the early hours of Sunday 10th November, Extinction Rebellion activists staged an action on the river Thames in London. A classic suburban house was seen floating down the river, sinking into the water in yet another attempt to send…
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NYC Street Art Map
Read more: NYC Street Art MapHuffington Post put together a digital, interactive map of some of the so-called best and brightest street art collections. Street art is important because it allows artists, usually from the community where the street art is taking place, to interact…