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Why Cakes Can Be a Powerful Form of Protest
Read more: Why Cakes Can Be a Powerful Form of ProtestLONG BEFORE WOMEN finally — though incompletely — won the right to vote in the United States in 1920, they were finding ways to influence politics. In late 18th-century New England, colonial women would make muster cakes — spiced, doorstop-heavy…
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Pothole Party!
Read more: Pothole Party!“Potholes!” That’s what Nikola Pisarev, a co-founder of the Contemporary Art Center (CAC) in North Macedoniona responded with when asked what sort of impact creative activism can have. Nikola went on to explain what he meant, describing a series of…
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Can ‘Caring Across Generations’ Change the World?
Read more: Can ‘Caring Across Generations’ Change the World?From The NationBy Laura Flanders A new campaign calling itself Caring Across Generations has in mind nothing less than a 180-degree turn in the way that Americans think about themselves, one another, the economy and workers. This group aims to…
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Pray The Devil Back to Hell
Read more: Pray The Devil Back to HellPray the Devil Back to Hell is the extraordinary story of a small band of Liberian women who came together in the midst of a bloody civil war, took on the violent warlords and corrupt Charles Taylor regime, and won…
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Red Sand Project
Read more: Red Sand ProjectThe Red Sand Project is a participatory art installation and social awareness project created by artist and activist Molly Gochman in 2014. The project aims to raise awareness about human trafficking, which is a global issue that affects an estimated…
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Thrive Collective
Read more: Thrive CollectiveThrive Collective mobilizes students, parents, artists, and community stakeholders to partner with public schools for transformational change. They function both as a matchmaker and direct service provider of arts and mentoring programs that cultivate the character and competencies necessary for…
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Vetements old clothes piles against fast fashion
Read more: Vetements old clothes piles against fast fashionVetements’ trademark is for subverting the fashion industry’s ways of doing things. Following its recent return to the runway after a short one season break, designer Demna Gvasalia has unveiled his latest project. Mirroring its takeover of New York department…
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Iconography
Read more: Iconography“Iconography” 1235 Ocean Parkway Brooklyn, NY 11230 May 27, 11 am – June 24, 7 pm Tuesday – Saturday, 11 am – 7 pm Please write to racc.ny@mail.ru or call (347) 662 1456 The artist is available for interviews Russian…
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Mona Lisa undamaged after protesters at the Louvre throw soup at Leonardo Da Vinci’s masterpiece
Read more: Mona Lisa undamaged after protesters at the Louvre throw soup at Leonardo Da Vinci’s masterpieceLeonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa (around 1503-19) was attacked at the Musée du Louvre, in Paris, today by environmental activists who threw soup over the world’s most-recognised and most-viewed painting. The celebrated portrait, which has been protected by security glass…
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Voices of Freedom: The Impact and Legacy of Tania Bruguera’s #YoTambienExijo
Read more: Voices of Freedom: The Impact and Legacy of Tania Bruguera’s #YoTambienExijoThe beginnings of the #YoTambienExijo movement were born on 17 December 2014, when President Obama announcement a landmark warming of the 53-year chill between the United States and Cuba. “When I first heard about the Cuba-US reconciliation it had a…
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Ai Weiwei poses as drowned Syrian infant refugee in ‘haunting’ photo
Read more: Ai Weiwei poses as drowned Syrian infant refugee in ‘haunting’ photoChinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei has recreated the image of drowned infant Alan Kurdi that in 2015 became the defining symbol of the plight of Syria’s refugees. For the recreation, Ai lay on a pebbled beach on the Greek…
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Time Redefined: Maarten Baas’ ‘Real Time’ Series
Read more: Time Redefined: Maarten Baas’ ‘Real Time’ SeriesThe “Real Time” series by Maarten Baas is an avant-garde collection of art installations and functional timepieces that question the very basics of how to measure and experience time. It has, therefore, been a unique mix of performance art with…