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Wait Watchers
Read more: Wait WatchersFrom the photographer’s website: For my series, Wait Watchers, I set up a camera in a heavy-traffic, public area and take hundreds of photographs as I perform mundane, everyday tasks as people pass by me. I then examine the images…
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Attractive & Fat
Read more: Attractive & FatJes Baker is cutting retailer Abercrombie & Fitch down to size. Baker, who blogs under the name “The Militant Baker” and wears a size 22, changed the brand’s A&F logo to “Attractive & Fat” in a mock, black-and-white Abercrombie ad…
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Project 562: Changing the way we see Native America
Read more: Project 562: Changing the way we see Native AmericaMatika Willbur was given a grant by Kickstarter (the worlds largest funding platform for creative projects) to travel around the U.S. for a year and photograph Native America. The goal of the 562 project is to change the way we…
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MobileMuster
Read more: MobileMusterAustralian recycling initiative MobileMuster, a free mobile phone recycling program that accepts all brands and types of mobile phones, teamed up with artist Chris Jordan and college students from Melbourne, Australia to create a public installation. The installation, which is…
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Pork Bun Restaurant Turned Protest Site
Read more: Pork Bun Restaurant Turned Protest SiteChinese leader Xi Jinping’s latest attempt to cultivate his image as a man of the people is creating some unintended consequences. Qingfeng Restaurant, an unassuming local eatery where Xi ate a meal of pork buns, fried pig liver and vegetables…
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Church protest reveals realities of life in modern Bethlehem
Read more: Church protest reveals realities of life in modern BethlehemThe Rev Lucy Winkett is having trouble sleeping. This is because her church on Piccadilly has decided to erect a full-size copy of the Israeli separation barrier to block off her Christopher Wren church. And because she lives above the…
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Call for Local Artwork Exhibition
Read more: Call for Local Artwork ExhibitionMIAMI — Officials at the recently inaugurated Pérez Art Museum Miami confirmed on Monday that a valuable vase by the Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei had been deliberately destroyed by a visitor in what appeared to be an act of…
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190 Bowery Street
Read more: 190 Bowery StreetI went on a graffiti tour that went through NOHO, SOHO and the Lower East Side last weekend. We saw works by street artists – Space Invader and Roa – that were remarkable. Roa had created a commissioned mural of…
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Wall Of Love
Read more: Wall Of Love“Divided we are weak. Together we are strong.” Those were the words tweeted by openly gay football star Michael Sam, thanking his University of Missouri family for their support. He posted the message after arriving at the school and seeing…
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Object Orange
Read more: Object OrangeIn the “D”, “D” doesn’t really stand for “Detroit”, but “Demolition.” Take a look around and you’ll notice a great number of buildings marked on the front with a circled “D” in faint chalk. Off to the side, many of…
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post (r)evolutionary exercises
Read more: post (r)evolutionary exercisesThe post (r)evolutionary exercises are the outcome of a meeting/friendship/project that started in summer 2010, when we took part in “Goings on” seminar in Beirut, Lebanon. In this seminar, curated by Cecilia Andersson, Scandinavian and Middle east art groups were…
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Detox Catwalk
Read more: Detox CatwalkIs your favorite apparel brand a fashion trendsetter, greenwasher, or laggard? Find out by taking a spin on Greenpeace International’s “Detox Catwalk” . Unveiled Thursday, the interactive online platform examines which companies are “walking the talk” to a toxic-free future.…