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Kurdish Artist Zehra Doğan Has Been Freed in Turkey After 3 Years for Illustrating Turkey’s Violence
Read more: Kurdish Artist Zehra Doğan Has Been Freed in Turkey After 3 Years for Illustrating Turkey’s ViolenceThe Kurdish journalist and artist Zehra Doğan was freed yesterday after nearly three years in prison, Hyperallergic reports. Doğan first caught the attention of the Turkish authorities back in 2017 with a watercolor that depicted a Kurdish district after Turkish…
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Green Day’s “American Idiot”
Read more: Green Day’s “American Idiot”Mass media using propaganda to brainwash citizens. Confusion and ignorance causing a divide. People rising up against an oppressive government. Humans being torn between rage and love. These are the themes of Green Day’s widely successful 2004 album, “American Idiot.”…
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John Luther Adams: Inuksuit – A Border-Crossing Presentation
Read more: John Luther Adams: Inuksuit – A Border-Crossing PresentationThe San Diego Symphony performs John Luther Adams piece “Inuksuit” at the U.S.-Mexico border. Premiered in the Canadian Rockies, John Luther Adams’s outdoor masterpiece, Inuksuit, is a mirror of the landscape in which it is performed. We’ll play the piece…
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The Paradox of the Tyre Nichols Video
Read more: The Paradox of the Tyre Nichols VideoTYRE NICHOLS WAS a photographer with an eye for the natural world. He was especially drawn to landscape portraiture, its calm and innocence. It is said that Nichols liked to crane his lens skyward, capturing what sunlight he could before…
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Green Map UAE
Read more: Green Map UAEGreen Map UAE is a place to pin, share, and quite literally, map out locations or events that are unique ecologically, culturally and considered civic resources near home or while traveling within the UAE. This portal, apart of a larger…
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Ice Watch
Read more: Ice WatchDanish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has extracted 30 blocks of glacial ice from the waters surrounding Greenland and placed them in public spaces across London, where they will be left to melt. Called Ice Watch, the temporary installation is meant to…
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Shamecards
Read more: ShamecardsMimicking the look of iconic “Greetings From” postcards, Manuel and Patricia Oliver, parents of Joaquin Oliver who died in the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, created “Shamecards” featuring 52 cities from around the United States. Rather than highlighting the…
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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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Turf the Turf Eco Garden Bike Tour
Read more: Turf the Turf Eco Garden Bike TourTurf the Turf hopes to inspire you to reconsider your front lawn by sharing existing examples of creative uses on a fun bike tour around the city of Kelowna. There are many options, such as xeriscaping (using native plants), front…
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Buses in Seoul install ‘comfort women’ statues to honour former sex slaves
Read more: Buses in Seoul install ‘comfort women’ statues to honour former sex slavesBuses serving several routes in central Seoul have acquired a new and highly controversial passenger: a barefoot “comfort woman”, wearing a traditional hanbok dress with her hands resting on her knees. Appearing on the front seat of buses in the…
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The Art World’s New Gang War
Read more: The Art World’s New Gang WarThe Nahmads have been dealers in Modern art since Giuseppe Nahmad set up in Milan in 1957. But they have been the Warren Buffetts of the business, sticking to the tried and true. Now Joseph Nahmad, one of Giuseppe’s grandsons,…
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Even in Solitary Confinement Kevin “Rashid” Johnson is Educating, Organizing, and Mobilizing
Read more: Even in Solitary Confinement Kevin “Rashid” Johnson is Educating, Organizing, and MobilizingKevin “Rashid” Johnson is a revolutionary, writer, social activist and founding member and Minister of Defense of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party, and member of the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee. At 18 years old, in 1990, he was convicted…