Main Gallery
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Pandas on Tour
Read more: Pandas on TourGrangeon’s long-running traveling exhibit, Pandas on Tour, features 1600 papier-mâché pandas. That’s approximately one for as many as there are left in the world (recent estimates actually place the number slightly below that, at 1596). Each papier-mâché sculpture represents a…
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Self-barricading for Free Education
Read more: Self-barricading for Free EducationEleven students have locked themselves in the Peter Cooper Suite of the eighth floor of the Cooper Union building to protest the institution’s decision to charge graduate students tuition. “We’re hoping this will show the administration that they aren’t able…
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#LaLigaArcoIris: Rainbow Shoelaces Against Homophobia
Read more: #LaLigaArcoIris: Rainbow Shoelaces Against HomophobiaSpanish soccer has witnessed and engaged in a variety of conversations in the last few years: Racism, politics, xenophobia, territorial issues, corruption, inmigration. However, there is an issue that remains untouched, and this issue is homophobia. Soccer is still a…
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The Fearless Girl Statue
Read more: The Fearless Girl StatueOn the eve of International Women’s Day and the one-year anniversary of its SPDR®SSGA Gender Diversity Index ETF (ticker: SHE), State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), the asset management business of State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) is calling on the more…
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“Kitchenware Revolution” to protest Icelandic financial crisis
Read more: “Kitchenware Revolution” to protest Icelandic financial crisisIn 2008, Iceland was in turmoil. There was a systematic failure of its three main commercial banks. The Economist called the collapse the largest suffered by any country in history, relative to Iceland’s population size. In response to what was…
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Activists Illustrated – Women at the Heart of Global Struggles
Read more: Activists Illustrated – Women at the Heart of Global StrugglesLatin American Artist María María Acha-Kutscher takes photographs from social and feminist movements and turns them into stunning pop art illustrations. ” Indignadas (Outraged Women) consists of a visual record of participation of women in public protests around the world,…
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Eco-Music Big Band
Read more: Eco-Music Big Band“Writing Political Music in Today’s World” I began studying composition with Fred Ho without knowing quite what I was getting myself into. I was 25 with a fresh graduate degree in composition under my belt, lost in that special way…
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Standing Man – Duran Adam
Read more: Standing Man – Duran AdamOn June the 18th 2013 in Istanbul, Turkey suddenly a man appeared on Taksim Square, just standing there. After more than 2 weeks of peaceful protest against the ruling Prime Minister and his party AKP Taksim Square is still the…
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Belgium Disappears
Read more: Belgium DisappearsFor a brief moment on Wednesday night it appeared that Belgium had disappeared. The main French language television station hoodwinked the country into thinking that it had split in two when it reported that Flanders had issued a unilateral declaration…
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And Where Do I Drive?
Read more: And Where Do I Drive?Cyclist activists from the Koce, Return to the Street initiative set up sculptures symbolically showing the marginalization of cyclists in the city, the inadequate and dysfunctional infrastructure for this means of transport, but also to point out the large number…
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Law of the Journey
Read more: Law of the JourneyThe exhibition Law of the Journey is Ai Weiwei’s multi-layered, epic statement on the human condition: an artist’s expression of empathy and moral concern in the face of continuous, uncontrolled destruction and carnage. Hosted in a building of symbolic historical…
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HOODsisters
Read more: HOODsisters(Honoring our Origins, Ourselves and our Dreams) is an all-womyn and womyn-identified crew from the northeast San Fernando Valley dedicated to creating awareness through public art. External sources: https://www.hoodsisters.org