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Carnival
Read more: Carnival“A week-long party characterizes Brazil’s Carnival, the Mardi Gras of the southern hemisphere. Celebrations and parades are held throughout the country, most notably in the city of Rio de Janeiro and the Brazilian states of Bahia and Pernambuco. Carnival celebrations…
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#MuslimVDay
Read more: #MuslimVDay“In these apocalyptic Islamophobic times, laughing in the face of the resistance can sometimes be the best medicine.” That may sound like the trailer to a good-bad movie, but that’s how Tanzila “Taz” Ahmed describes her awesome Muslim Valentine’s Day…
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Inside the house that Theaster built
Read more: Inside the house that Theaster builtInside the house that Theaster built Rising art star and activist Theaster Gates is transforming his neighbourhood, one building at a time By Helen Stoilas. Features, Issue 238, September 2012Published online: 06 September 2012 When I arrive at 6901 Dorchester…
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Māori Artist Gives Glimpse of Future Water-World Full of Plastic
Read more: Māori Artist Gives Glimpse of Future Water-World Full of PlasticNew Zealander artist George Nuku has presented his latest work as an installation that imagines the state of the world’s oceans 100 years in the future where plastics have totally changed the marine environment. Nuku’s project, dubbed Bottled Ocean 2122,…
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Little Sun
Read more: Little SunOlafur Eliasson’s latest project Little Sun was first debuted at the World Economic Forum on Africa in 2012. The global initiative is bringing tiny, sunburst shaped, plastic solar powered LED lights to the most marginalized regions of the world. Elliasson…
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Miles Morales
Read more: Miles MoralesFrom The Huffington Post: In his lyrics under the rap pseudonym Childish Gambino, Donald Glover proposed, “I’ll be your hero – Donald for Spider-Man.” It might have sounded innocuous to the uninitiated ear – just another hip-hop boast among many…
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#DearMe
Read more: #DearMeFrom Variety: YouTube launched a campaign with the hashtag #DearMe — encouraging users to upload “video letters” with advice to their younger selves, aimed at helping girls deal with problems — and within an hour it became the No. 1…
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Defying Gravity with Elegance: Yoann Bourgeois’ Mesmerizing Take on Debussy’s ‘Clair de Lune
Read more: Defying Gravity with Elegance: Yoann Bourgeois’ Mesmerizing Take on Debussy’s ‘Clair de LuneYoann Bourgeois is a mastermind in performance art who treats dance, acrobatics, and theatricality as practices that delve into fundamental human experiences related to falling and flying. His approach is unique, in which every creation transcends into something more than…
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MESOAMÉRICA RESISTE
Read more: MESOAMÉRICA RESISTEThe Beehive Design Collective is a wildly motivated, all-volunteer, activist arts collective dedicated to “cross-pollinating the grassroots” by creating collaborative, anti-copyright images for use as educational and organizing tools. We work as word-to-image translators of complex global stories, shared with…
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We Animals
Read more: We AnimalsWe Animals is an ambitious project which documents, through photography, animals in the human environment. Humans are as much animal as the sentient beings we use for food, clothing, research, experimentation, work, entertainment, slavery and companionship. With this as its…
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Blued
Read more: BluedHow a Dating App Helped a Generation of Chinese Come Out of the Closet Blued, one of the biggest gay dating apps in the world, has succeeded because it plays by the ever-shifting rules for L.G.B.T.Q. China — bringing together…
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A Story Like Mine
Read more: A Story Like MineHalsey Delivers Emotional Speech About Sexual Abuse, Rape at New York Women’s March: Here Is Her Full Poem Halsey penned a powerful, heart-wrenching poem about her own experiences with sexual assault and rape for the 2018 Women’s March in New…