Main Gallery
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Yoko Ono, Cut Piece, 1964
Read more: Yoko Ono, Cut Piece, 1964In Cut Piece—one of Yoko Ono’s early performance works—the artist sat alone on a stage, dressed in her best suit, with a pair of scissors in front of her. The audience had been instructed that they could take turns approaching…
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Living Pain Art
Read more: Living Pain ArtOften referred to as a ‘living pain’ artist, Petr Pavlensky chooses performance art that often takes form of extreme acts as his political language. Some of his stunts involve sewing his mouth shut in political protest against the incarceration of…
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“For People, Food is the First Necessity: Qiu Zhijie’s Writing in a Market”
Read more: “For People, Food is the First Necessity: Qiu Zhijie’s Writing in a Market”During the public vacation of May Day, also called International Workers’ Day, “For People, Food is the First Necessity: Qiu Zhijie’s Writing in a Market” was launched at the crowded Sanyuanli market in Beijing. The exhibition successfully aroused the enthusiasm…
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Share The Love
Read more: Share The LoveWe were ‘Superheroes’ and had fun, colourful, engaging activities which had a high visual impact with a purpose to engage the head, hand and heart. We believe that everyone has superpowers within and they just need to be released but…
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Carolee Schneemann, Interior Scroll, 1975
Read more: Carolee Schneemann, Interior Scroll, 1975This print is one of several works documenting a performance Schneemann made at Women Here and Now, an exhibition of paintings accompanied by a series of performances, in East Hampton, New York in August 1975. In front of an audience…
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Art activists decorate bandanas to protest violence against women farmworkers
Read more: Art activists decorate bandanas to protest violence against women farmworkersSitting at a folding table in the basement of Trinity Episcopal Church in downtown Columbus, Monica Jacobo used a felt tip marker to write the words “No means no!” on a white bandana. Jacobo, 57, was among nearly a dozen…
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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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Foreigners Everywhere
Read more: Foreigners EverywhereThe Paris-based collective Claire Fontaine displays a neon sign that spells the words ‘Foreigners Everywhere’ in Arabic. Since this sign was installed strategically above the gallery’s wall-length window – facing in the street – in the edition of the show…
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Call out sites displaying ICE recruiitment adverstising
Read more: Call out sites displaying ICE recruiitment adverstisingICE [Immigration & Customs Enforecement] is now heavily recruiting, in part with offers of a $50,000 signing bonus. ICE has run roughshod over the Constitution, targeting people via racial profiling, failing to give people their constitutional rights of due process,…
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The Flood: Gilgamesh and the quest of immortality
Read more: The Flood: Gilgamesh and the quest of immortalityFrom the two shores of the Mediterranean, Zoukak theatre company and cultural association (Beirut) and Center for cultural decontamination CZKD (Belgrade) collaborates by sharing their experiences and knowledge in working within sociopolitical contexts in the field of art and culture.…
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Org Brings Women Menstrual Products & Education To Global Level
Read more: Org Brings Women Menstrual Products & Education To Global LevelAlthough we are in the supposedly modern and advanced year of 2020, there are still at least 500 million women and girls that lack adequate facilities for menstrual hygiene management, according to the World Bank Organization. One of the specific…
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MTA ‘See Something, Say Something’ Posters Get #Resist Makeover
Read more: MTA ‘See Something, Say Something’ Posters Get #Resist MakeoverIf you scanned the public service announcements in your subway car this morning—and happened to be adequately caffeinated—you might have noticed something slightly off. There’s Melissa C., of small-time “See Something, Say Something” fame, with her gold hoops and salmon-pink…