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Open Plan: Andrea Fraser at the Whitney
Read more: Open Plan: Andrea Fraser at the WhitneyThe average crow takes less than two hours to travel from Sing Sing maximum-security prison to the Whitney Museum of American Art, institutions separated by just 32 miles of land along New York’s Hudson river. Yet few humans journey between…
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People React to Being Called Beautiful
Read more: People React to Being Called BeautifulShea Glover, age 18, began a senior project that became an activist/social campaign. Shea approached people throughout her high school and asked them if they would pose for her senior project. To each person she would say, I’m taking pictures…
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Queering Utopia: Circus Amok at the Scholar & Feminist Conference on Utopia
Read more: Queering Utopia: Circus Amok at the Scholar & Feminist Conference on Utopia“Stay cool, stay calm, you have the right to remain silent. / Don’t run, don’t resist, and get that badge number.” So goes the catchy and campy tune performed by Circus Amok! that teaches people what to do when they…
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Visions From The Inside – Art project inspired by letters by detained migrants
Read more: Visions From The Inside – Art project inspired by letters by detained migrantsCultureStrike in partnership with Mariposas Sin Fronteras , End Family Detention and 15 artists from across the country, brings you Visions From The Inside, a visual art project inspired by letters penned by detained migrants. By visually illustrating these letters…
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How Selective Enforcement of Illegal Advertising Laws Punishes Creative Activism
Read more: How Selective Enforcement of Illegal Advertising Laws Punishes Creative ActivismThe enforcement of city and state law pertaining to graffiti, advertising, and other signage has enormous power to visually shape public space. In New York City, enforcement is heavily skewed to ignore illegal commercial advertising, while simultaneously aggressively targeting graffiti…
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Rundberg’s ‘Running Man’ Looks to Take His Message Beyond Austin
Read more: Rundberg’s ‘Running Man’ Looks to Take His Message Beyond AustinHe’s everyone’s favorite cardio-loving community activist — a relatively new emissary of Austin weird. His name is Broderick James, but he’s better known as the Rundberg Running Man, a local fixture you can find dancing, running and freestyle rapping on…
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Activist Hangs Herself in Protest
Read more: Activist Hangs Herself in ProtestA topless activist staged a mock hanging from a bridge in Paris, to protest against the visit of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. The protester, from international women’s rights group Femen, hung from the bridge in an execution-style demonstration on 28…
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Make Love, Not Porn
Read more: Make Love, Not PornAt TED2009, audience member Cindy Gallop gave a 4-minute presentation that became one of the event’s most talked about. Speaking from her personal experience, she argued that hardcore pornography had distorted the way a generation of young men think about…
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Rap Against Rape
Read more: Rap Against RapeUnder the moniker BomBaebs, Pankhuri Awasthi and Uppekha Jain rap about rape, cultural stereotypes, religious biases, and hypocrisy surrounding sexism and gender biases in India. They open the video with a disclaimer, warning that “This video doesn’t have any explicit…
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Protest against Iranian President Hassan Rouhani
Read more: Protest against Iranian President Hassan RouhaniA Femen activist, Sarah Constantin, is hanged from a noose-like rope from a Paris bridge to call attention to the large number of executions in Iran as she stages a protest against visiting Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in Paris, Thursday,…
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Nick Cave Scavenges From a Shameful History: “Made for Whites by Whites”
Read more: Nick Cave Scavenges From a Shameful History: “Made for Whites by Whites”Marcel Duchamp, father of the readymade, forced the world to consider mundane things as significant objects, worthy of greater-than-average contemplation — yet his bicycle wheel, shovel, and urinal didn’t come freighted with all that much history. For Nick Cave, the…
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Surf China’s Censored Web at an Internet Cafe in New York
Read more: Surf China’s Censored Web at an Internet Cafe in New YorkIt may have been a while since you’ve set foot in an internet cafe, but a pop-up one on the Lower East Side offering free tea on top of free wifi is well worth a visit for a lesson in…