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Art, Activism, and the City: Illuminating Social Change
Read more: Art, Activism, and the City: Illuminating Social ChangeThe creative fusion of art and activism in urban spaces has propelled the British collective Led by Donkeys into the spotlight, garnering millions of views for their interventions on social media. Their critical visual occupations – whether billboard messages during…
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MFA Billboard
Read more: MFA BillboardThe Guerrilla Girls tactic was well thought-out and was effective in creating a spectacle to draw attention to the issue at hand, which is the lack of female representation in the museum. Where I think the campaign has some drawbacks…
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Antigone
Read more: AntigoneAntigone, written by Sophocles approximately 441 BC, is the third of the three Thebans plays. Antigone is the daughter of the infamous Oedipus and Jocasta. Thebes has suffered from a plague, scandal, and civil war. Antigone’s brothers, Eteocles and Polyneices…
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Partido de la Red, Argentina’s Internet Party
Read more: Partido de la Red, Argentina’s Internet PartyThe following is Alex King’s description of the founding of the Partido de la Red in Buenos Aires, Argentina: … “a giant Trojan horse trundled through the streets of Buenos Aires…this was how the newly formed Partido de la Red,…
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Nikeplatz
Read more: NikeplatzIn September 2003 the news went out nationwide: Karlsplatz, one of Vienna’s main squares, is soon to be renamed Nikeplatz. Apart from the new name, it appears that a huge monument in the shape of Nike’s famous “Swoosh” logo will…
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MADE HERE Project: Documentary Series
Read more: MADE HERE Project: Documentary SeriesMADE HERE is a documentary series and website focusing on performing artists based in New York City. A collage of intimate interviews, performances and behind-the-scenes footage, MADE HERE mirrors the rich diversity of the artists and communities they serve. It…
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Caged Bird Songs and Other Stories
Read more: Caged Bird Songs and Other StoriesCaged Bird Songs ‘his wings are clipped and his feet are tied’ Maya Angelou believed in empathy as an empowering force in the world. In the time of coronavirus, we find our wings ‘clipped’ in various ways. The lucky among…
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Carlos Hernández Chávez’s Mural Activism
Read more: Carlos Hernández Chávez’s Mural ActivismCarlos Hernández Chávez is a Mexican-American muralist who brings the spirit of 20th-century Mexican muralism into modern New England. Chávez’s murals address key social justice themes, including immigration, workers’ rights, and cultural identity, challenging viewers to acknowledge and reflect on…
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When I Walk
Read more: When I WalkIn 2006, 25-year-old Jason DaSilva was on vacation at the beach with family when, suddenly, he fell down. He couldn’t get back up. His legs had stopped working; his disease could no longer be ignored. Just a few months earlier…
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Hotel Voices
Read more: Hotel VoicesThe Revolutionary Theatre project co-written, co-directed and acted by writers, artists and poets currently living, surviving and sometimes thriving in Single Room Occupancy Hotels aka poor people housing in the Bay Area. Hotel Voices theatrically speaks to and educates the…
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The Department of Accumulated Thought (D.A.T.)
Read more: The Department of Accumulated Thought (D.A.T.)Call it art, exhibited as an installation piece in the October 2014 show “Crossing Brooklyn,” a collaboration of more than 100 artworks by 35 artists (or groups) who live or work in Brooklyn, presented at the Brooklyn Museum… or call…