Main Gallery
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Dyke Action Machine!
Read more: Dyke Action Machine!Taken from the website: Dyke Action Machine! (DAM!) is a two-person public art project founded in 1991 by artist Carrie Moyer and photographer Sue Schaffner. Between 1991 and 2004 DAM! blitzed the streets of New York City with public art…
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The Balloon Project by Yan Kong
Read more: The Balloon Project by Yan KongThe Balloon Project, is a three-year-in-the-making Art Installation by Yan Kong in support of world refugees and migrants. It pays tribute to human spirit, courage and survival. The Balloon Project is a multimedia work incorporating mechanical engineering and visuals to…
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Fear Eats the Soul
Read more: Fear Eats the SoulIf the way to one’s heart really is through the stomach, Rirkrit Tiravanija must have more than his share of admirers. Now at GAVIN BROWN, the Buenos Aires-born artist with a history of dishing out tasty edibles in his exhibitions…
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Three Weeks in May
Read more: Three Weeks in MayIn May of 1977, artist Suzanne Lacy mapped every reported rape in LA for a period of three weeks. This project, aptly named “Three Weeks in May”, was part of an extended performance which Lacy utilized as a means to…
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GuggenSITO
Read more: GuggenSITOEl Antimuseo es un proyecto curatorial que questiona los mecanismos de legitimación del arte. El grupo considera su trabajo ” el proceso social donde se produce el valor simbólico y económico de la obra de arte, así como en el…
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Mechanized Moments: John Wood and Paul Harrison’s ‘Device’ and the Absurdity of Technology
Read more: Mechanized Moments: John Wood and Paul Harrison’s ‘Device’ and the Absurdity of TechnologyJohn Wood and Paul Harrison are renowned British artists whose collaboration has led to the merging of video art with performance and conceptual art. Their works usually reside on the relationship between human beings, objects, and the environment, with humor…
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Kony 2012
Read more: Kony 2012In 2004, the United Nations called the LRA crisis in northern Uganda the “most forgotten, neglected humanitarian emergency in the world.” Invisible Children was founded to change that and to fight against the false notion that our responsibility to each…
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Somalia guerrilla artists dare to paint reality
Read more: Somalia guerrilla artists dare to paint reality“I want to show the people how bad the troubles were,” says artist Muhiyidin Sharif Ibrahim of Mogadishu, Somalia. “That’s the message we’re going to send to people.” (Robyn Dixon, Los Angeles Times) External sources: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/sep/19/world/la-fg-somalia-artists-20120920
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Hall of Fame, Ciudadela México, Quito
Read more: Hall of Fame, Ciudadela México, QuitoTranvía Cero is a group of artists from Ecuador who have been creating artistic projects with the aim to empact community lives and change the ideas of art as an exclusive terrain. The describe their goal as a redefinition of…
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Ferdinand the Bull
Read more: Ferdinand the BullOn a damp and rainy Sunday in October of 1935, Munro Leaf sat down to write a story. He had been eager to work with his friend – the illustrator Robert Lawson – for some time and so he decided…
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Critical Engeneering Manifesto
Read more: Critical Engeneering ManifestoThe Critical Engineering ManifestoThe Critical Engineer considers Engineering to be the most transformative language of our time, shaping the way we move, communicate and think. It is the work of the Critical Engineer to study and exploit this language, exposing…
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Ridiculously Rich for Rove
Read more: Ridiculously Rich for RoveIn 2009, the College Republicans used tens of thousands of dollars from student fees to bring Karl Rove to speak at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Many groups of activists responded. Students for a Democratic Society organized a loud demonstration in…