Projects tagged
Does nothing (at all)
Doesn’t really have an impact, beyond possibly expressing the artist-activist’s dissatisfaction with the world.
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#CronicaDaMorteAnunciada
Read more: #CronicaDaMorteAnunciadaAcción #CronicaDaMorteAnunciada que consistió en la creación de 9 estandartes con informaciones sobre asesinatos a “País do Santo” para denunciar sus muertes por motivos de racismo afroreligioso en la ciudad de Belém, Brasil. La acción resalta la violencia letal contra…
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IMPEACH
Read more: IMPEACHIMPEACH An online exhibition of art work by twenty artists Katherine Aoki, Deborah Harris, Nicolas Lampert,Cicely Cottingham, Art Hazelwood, Ilse Schreiber-Noll, Priscilla Stadler, Tim Fite, Anne Q McKeown, Anne Dushanko Dobek, Robyn Ellenbogen, Joseph O’Neal, Donna Coleman, Robert Geshlider, Michael…
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Quinceañera Protest
Read more: Quinceañera ProtestOn Wednesday, a group of 15 teenage girls, dressed in brightly colored gowns, stood in front of the Texas State Capitol to participate in one of Latin American culture’s most cherished traditions: the quinceañera. But this quinceañera was more than…
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Handmaid’s Tale of Protest
Read more: Handmaid’s Tale of ProtestIn state capitals and street protests, women’s rights activists have been wearing red robes and white bonnets based on “The Handmaid’s Tale,” the 1985 novel that is now a series on Hulu. Silent, heads bowed, the activists in crimson robes…
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Muro
Read more: MuroA wall will go up in Washington Square Park on Sept. 7, but come down by the end of the day. Called “Muro,” this wall will be the artist Bosco Sodi’s first public installation in New York, in partnership with…
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Yankee Doodle Dandy
Read more: Yankee Doodle DandyThe Fourth of July is upon us, so it’s time once again to sing what is arguably our most baffling national ditty, “Yankee Doodle Dandy.” Maybe you’ve noticed: Some of the lyrics seem like the work of a prankster on…
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Museum of Capitalism
Read more: Museum of CapitalismImagine a world without capitalism. That simple yet seemingly impossible task is at the core of the Museum of Capitalism, a new speculative institution set to open its doors in Oakland, California, on June 17th. Through August 20th, the free…
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Kimani Gray Barricades
Read more: Kimani Gray Barricades“This project was launched in the wake of the police shooting of 16-year old Brooklyn resident Kimani Gray. Blue NYPD barricades left in piles around the city were spray-painted with the names of people killed by police, then re-deployed in…
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Anti-Trump Aerobics
Read more: Anti-Trump AerobicsAlley Cat Books, located in the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District, is ordinarily a quiet space for book lovers to peruse multicolored shelves for their next literary adventure. But on Sunday, the small bookstore buzzed with energy as a…
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Pay Trump Bribes Here
Read more: Pay Trump Bribes HereVisitors to the Trump International Hotel in Washington were greeted with a provocative message Monday night: “Pay Trump bribes here.” Artist and filmmaker Robin Bell said he projected those words onto the hotel’s facade from a van across the street,…
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Pineapple
Read more: PineappleHow did a pineapple become a postmodern masterpiece? The aesthetic merits of tropical fruit inadvertently entered Britain’s national cultural conversation after two students jokingly placed a store-bought pineapple on an empty table at an art exhibition this month at Robert…
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Strike Debt: Peoples Bailout Telethon
Read more: Strike Debt: Peoples Bailout TelethonPart telethon, part variety show, and part party, the People’s Bailout Telethon kicked off the Rolling Jubilee, a project by the Occupy-offshoot Strike Debt. The Rolling Jubilee raises funds through grassroots donations, buys debt for pennies on the dollar, but…