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Street Art and Activism With ‘The Slumlord Project’ In Baltimore

In a twist on the Broken Windows Theory, street artists are using their skills to combat urban blight in Baltimore with “The Slumlord Project”. By drawing the attention of neighbors to abandoned and vacant properties and giving pertinent ownership information…

Michelle Wolf got it just right

Practitioner:
Michelle Wolf

“Thank you!” That’s how comedian Michelle Wolf answered Sean Spicer’s declaration that her headlining stand-up set at the the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner was “a disgrace.” Her response is instructive: To Wolf, an insult from Spicer is an accolade…

Activism Within All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

Practitioner:
Nan Goldin & Laura Poitras

The new Oscar-nominated documentary, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, focuses on world-famous photographer Nan Goldin, her life, her work, and the protests she led at museums that accepted funding from the Sackler family. Their company, Purdue Pharma, manufactured and…

Ghetto Film School

Practitioner:
Joe Hall

The mission of The Ghetto Film School is to educate, develop and celebrate the next generation of great American storytellers. External sources: https://www.ghettofilm.org/

Ghana Thinktank. Developing the first world.

Practitioner:
Christopher Robbins, John Ewing, Maria Del Carmen Montoya, Matey Odonkor

Ghana ThinkTank is an international collective that “develops the first world” by flipping traditional power dynamics, asking the “third world” to intervene into the lives of the people living in the so-called “developed” world. We collect problems from communities throughout…

Santiago Sierra will soak British flag in blood of colonised peoples

Practitioner:
Santiago Sierra

The Spanish artist Santiago Sierra is planning to immerse a British flag in blood donated by indigenous peoples from countries colonised by the British Empire. The resulting artwork, titled Union Flag, is intended to be an “acknowledgement of the pain…

Project Row House

Practitioner:
Rob Lowe

Project Row Houses (PRH) is a neighborhood-based nonprofit art and cultural organization in Houston’s Northern Third Ward, one of the city’s oldest African-American communities. PRH began in 1993 as a result of discussions among African-American artists who wanted to establish…

“Dying to Survive”: A Movie on Generic Drugs

Practitioner:
Director Muye Wen (文牧野）, Yong Lu (陆勇)

The screen portrayal of a cancer sufferer whose illegal import of foreign medicines into China spurred national policy changes has become a box-office smash as audiences flock to a rare Chinese film on a hot-button issue. Dying To Survive is…

The Yes Men – Bhopal Hoax

Practitioner:
The Yes Men

“I am very, very happy to announce that for the first time, Dow is accepting full responsibility for the Bhopal catastrophe. We have a $12 billion plan to finally, at long last, fully compensate the victims, including the 120,000 who…

THEY Still want to kill us: Film of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre to Air at Arts Center

Practitioner:
UMass Amherst Arts Center, Yoram Savion

Joining art institutes nationally, a film on the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre will premiere at the UMass Amherst Arts Center. This is especially important given its will be the 100th anniversary of the tragic event of when “Black Wall Street”…

Exploring Silence and Connection: Marina Abramović’s ‘The Artist Is Present’ Unveiled

Practitioner:
Marina Abramović

Marina Abramović is the synonym for performance art. Throughout their career, she has constantly pushed her way through endurance art and further pushed the boundaries of the artist’s role in the audience. One of the most compelling and exciting works…

Now What?

Practitioner:
The pirARTes

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…