Main Gallery
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Palas Por Pistolas, or “Shovels for Guns”
Read more: Palas Por Pistolas, or “Shovels for Guns”An artist in Culiacan, Mexico—which has the highest rate of gun deaths in the country—has found a way to transform the agents of death into seeds of life. In 2008, artist Pedro Reyes started running television ads urging locals to…
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Operation Paydirt
Read more: Operation Paydirt“Operation Paydirt is a multidisciplinary, artist-driven project advancing a solution to the devastating problem of lead (Pb) contaminated soil that puts thousands of children at risk for severe learning disabilities and behavioral problems. The goals of the project are to…
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Pocard – Singapore Version
Read more: Pocard – Singapore VersionConcept 1. This is a participatory art action initiated by Action Office, aiming at questioning current democratic elections in Singapore and shaping an alternative possibility. 2. Design the pocards to resemble ballots, inviting people to fill out election results and…
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Now What?
Read more: Now What?Now What? project has just finished a series of interactive workshops, where global citizens came together to reflect on the global sustainability issues, got inspired and empowered to imagine the world anew through poetry and imagery. With the focus on…
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Jesus: Creative Activist
Read more: Jesus: Creative ActivistRegardless of one’s spiritual ties (or lack thereof) to Christianity, all artistic activists can take a note or two from Jesus’s playbook–the actions of “a radical Mediterranean Jewish peasant building a revolutionary movement two millennia ago.” 1. Jesus: Media Mogul. …
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Rana Plaza Protests at One Year Anniversary
Read more: Rana Plaza Protests at One Year Anniversary“Thousands of people, some wearing funeral shrouds, staged demonstrations at the site of the Rana Plaza factory complex on Thursday on the one-year anniversary of the Bangladesh disaster that claimed 1,138 lives. The demonstrators – who included injured survivors and…
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The Ferengi Plan (AKA How to Throttle the FCC to Dial Up Modem Speeds)
Read more: The Ferengi Plan (AKA How to Throttle the FCC to Dial Up Modem Speeds)On May 9th, 2014, NeoCities.org, installed measures designed to slow the bandwidth of the FCC’s IP addresses on Neocities’ homepage, throttling their bandwidth down to 28.8kbps modem speeds (the same speed as dial up). NeoCities has demanded a $1000 “ransom”…
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How Art Gives Shape to Cultural Change
Read more: How Art Gives Shape to Cultural ChangeThelma Golden, curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem, talks through three recent shows that explore how art examines and redefines culture. The “post-black” artists she works with are using their art to provoke a new dialogue about race and…
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“Printing Lost Culture of Ukraine” and “The Man Who Flew Into Space From His Brooklyn Apartment”
Read more: “Printing Lost Culture of Ukraine” and “The Man Who Flew Into Space From His Brooklyn Apartment”Both shows are supported by funds from New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and Materials for the Arts (MFTA). “Printing Lost Culture of Ukraine” November 13…
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Above’s Blood Diamond
Read more: Above’s Blood DiamondAfrica has had a devastating history of blood diamond wars. Blood diamond refers to a diamond mined in a war zone and then sold to finance an invading army’s war efforts, usually in Africa where more than two-thirds of the…
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Earthrise
Read more: EarthriseWhat he captured became one of the most influential images in history. A driving force of the environmental movement, the picture, which became known as Earthrise, showed the world as a singular, fragile, oasis. Earthrise did not have an immediate…
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A New Kind of Barbie
Read more: A New Kind of Barbie“Many people have criticized Barbie dolls for their unrealistic proportions, claiming that they give young girls a warped idea of what beauty should be. To tackle this problem, Nikolay Lamm created digital visualizations of a regular-sized “Barbie” doll, hoping to…