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Joseph Beuys, Coyote: I like America and America Likes Me, May 1974
Read more: Joseph Beuys, Coyote: I like America and America Likes Me, May 1974It was 1974 when Beuys arrived in New York City, ready to tackle a whole new challenge and create what was to become one of the most famous works of art of the time. Upon arrival, his assistants wrapped him…
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Die-In at Chicago City Hall for #NoCopAcademy
Read more: Die-In at Chicago City Hall for #NoCopAcademyA group of Chicago youth staged a “die-in’ at City Hall to demand that the city defund police and fund marginalized communities instead. The youth, all members of #NoCopAcademy, also announced that the organization is suing Mayor Rahm Emanuel for…
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Nowhereisland
Read more: NowhereislandNowhereisland was an island which journeyed from the High Arctic region of Svalbard to the south west coast of England in summer 2012. As it made this epic journey, it travelled through international waters, whereupon it became the world’s newest…
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Salvage Supperclub
Read more: Salvage SupperclubLast month, a graduate student by the name of Josh Treuhaft set up the Salvage Supperclub in New York City—an establishment where diners pay US$50 to eat a six course meal made from food scraps salvaged from the dumpster. Chefs…
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Intrabody Wireless Network
Read more: Intrabody Wireless Network“Intrabody Wireless Network” is a show of eighteen drawings and collages by Dmitry Borshch, in which he shows the architecture of such networks, their components referred to as nanomachines (biological, physical, chemical sensors, routers, antennas, interface devices), options for communicating…
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A Guide to the Afrofuturist House Music of Dirty Bird
Read more: A Guide to the Afrofuturist House Music of Dirty BirdIn 1996, filmmaker John Akomfrah created the character of the Data Thief as a narrative device to offer an insightful study of Afrofuturism in his film The Last Angel of History, which links Black musicians including George Clinton, Derrick May,…
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Participatory Chinatown: Promoting Civic Engagement
Read more: Participatory Chinatown: Promoting Civic EngagementTaken from Boston Globe Article: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2010/05/06/chinatown_the_video_game/ WHILE PUBLIC participation is a hallmark of urban planning in Boston, it normally takes the form of long, often windy meetings. In the era of augmented-reality apps and Google Earth, planners need more creative…
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paraSITE
Read more: paraSITEParaSITE: Custom built inflatable shelters designed for homeless people that attach to the exterior outtake vents of a building’s Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system. The warm air leaving the building simultaneously inflates and heats the double membrane structure.…
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Reparations Happy Hour
Read more: Reparations Happy HourIn Portland, Ore., organizers of the “Reparations Happy Hour” invited black, brown and indigenous people to a bar and handed them $10 bills as they arrived, a small but symbolic gift mostly funded by white people who were asked not…
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Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui
Read more: Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El AnatsuiThe first solo exhibition in a New York museum by the globally renowned contemporary artist El Anatsui, this show will feature over 30 works in metal and wood that transform appropriated objects into site-specific sculptures. Anatsui converts found materials into…
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Pandora’s Project
Read more: Pandora’s ProjectIt was October 31st, 2012, when a new artist appeared on social media. In a series of video clips, she proposed with a soft and slow speech that Peru hide its poverty. Her project consisted of installing vinyl pieces to…
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Articulo 6 (Action 1)
Read more: Articulo 6 (Action 1)Fashion designer and social scientist, Lucia Cuba, has taken up the task of using fashion as a vehicle to bring attention and awareness around Articulo 6, an article in the Peruvian constitution that declared a law of forced sterilization of…