Main Gallery
-
Hannah Gadsby’s Gender Agenda
Read more: Hannah Gadsby’s Gender AgendaFollowing the backlash of Netflix’s support of Dave Chappelle’s “The Closer” comedy special, which featured racist transphobic “jokes”, Hannah Gadsby took a deal with Netflix to create a comedy special featuring genderqueer comics. The show, titled ‘Gender Agenda’, was tapped…
-
The Last Billboard
Read more: The Last BillboardThe Last Billboard is a 36-foot art installation located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Created in 2013, it features a steel frame and removable wooden letters that must be arranged by hand. Each month a different artist, activist or individual is invited…
-
Capitalism Works For Me! True/False
Read more: Capitalism Works For Me! True/FalseA 20ft by 9ft scoreboard that reads “Capitalism Works For Me!” and allows visitors to vote on whether Capitalism works in their lives by pressing a button for True or False. “Capitalism is discussed every day using euphemisms like ‘jobs,’…
-
North Carolina “Pray In”
Read more: North Carolina “Pray In”By Adam Owens Seventeen people were arrested Monday evening during what the state chapter of the NAACP called a nonviolent “pray in” protest at the General Assembly. The protest was directed at Republican action on health care, unemployment benefits, education…
-
Those Without Names
Read more: Those Without NamesIn an art fair in Manila in March last year, one installation caught everybody’s eye. A blue single-seater armchair sits in the middle of a darkened room. It is surrounded by lamps hanging from the ceiling and rotating; another lamp…
-
Comic: Vaccines Work. Here Are the Facts.
Read more: Comic: Vaccines Work. Here Are the Facts.“Vaccines Work. Here Are the Facts.” is a short web comic by Maki Naro explaining “The risks, the misinformation, and the science behind history’s greatest life saver.” Fighting disinformation about vaccines is difficult. Hundreds of sites with bogus information have…
-
Animal-rights activist Le Fou Uses Street Art To Save Animals
Read more: Animal-rights activist Le Fou Uses Street Art To Save AnimalsAnimal-rights activist and artist Constantin Le Fou has made his ‘Vegan Club’ celebrity street art a Los Angeles staple. If you’ve been vegan for a while, then you’re likely familiar with the joke, “The first rule of ‘vegan club’ is:…
-
International demonstrations on Animal Rights Day
Read more: International demonstrations on Animal Rights DayShowcasing death to defend life El Pais, Madrid Activists protested with the organization Animal Equality (Igualdad Animal) in Puerta del Sol, Madrid, Burgos, and Toledo on December 10, commemorating the international Animal Rights Day. The activists were dressed in white…
-
With Red Lipstick, Indian Acid Attack Victim Makes a Bold Statement
Read more: With Red Lipstick, Indian Acid Attack Victim Makes a Bold StatementIn her peppy and helpful online video tutorial, Reshma Bano Quereshi promises to teach her viewers “how to get perfect red lips.” But unlike the more than 200,000 other online videos dedicated to the application of lipstick, this one goes…
-
A Painter and Social Activist With an ‘Unruly Nature’
Read more: A Painter and Social Activist With an ‘Unruly Nature’The idea was born in an instant. A curator attending an opening at the Baltimore Museum of Art was immediately captivated by a painting from an artist she had barely heard of, Mary Lovelace O’Neal. Three months later, a five-decade…
-
Tatlin’s Whisper #6
Read more: Tatlin’s Whisper #6This is the sixth piece of the series Tatlin’s Whisper which examines the relationship between apathy and anaesthetization of the images in the mass media. This series intends to activate images, well-known because of having been repeatedly seen in the…
-
“Medicine Man,” a mobile sculpture commissioned by MAKE ART/STOP AIDS
Read more: “Medicine Man,” a mobile sculpture commissioned by MAKE ART/STOP AIDS“Medicine Man,” a mobile sculpture that MAKE ART/STOP AIDS commissioned from San Francisco-based artists Daniel Goldstein and John Kapellas. The piece is constructed of pill bottles that Goldstein and Kapellas, and their partners, saved up from treatment regimens dating as…