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FUBAR for Valentine’s Day
Read more: FUBAR for Valentine’s DayThis past Valentine’s Day the Fresh Juice Party pulled another “art prank;” this time sending chocolate shaped as dead American soldiers and sent them to U.S. government officials, especially to the previous Bush administration. This prank while very effective in…
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Water Is Life
Read more: Water Is LifeThe Overpass Light Brigade (Milwaukee, WI), has been working with Idle No More (WI) in order to give visibility to the cultural and environmental costs of opening up Northern Wisconsin to iron mining. The proposal will soon be voted on…
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“Hail to the Thief” : political art or creative activism?
Read more: “Hail to the Thief” : political art or creative activism?Established Cape Town based artist Brett Murray returns to Goodman Gallery Johannesburg with Hail to the Thief II. This body of satirical work continues his acerbic attacks on abuses of power, corruption and political dumbness seen in his 2010 Cape…
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100 Faces of War Experience
Read more: 100 Faces of War ExperienceOn completion the 100 Faces project will consist of 100 Portraits of Americans who have been to the theaters of war in Iraq or Afghanistan (OEF,OIF). Each portrait is accompanied by a placard featuring a statement written by the person…
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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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Man at the Crossroads
Read more: Man at the CrossroadsIn 1932, Rivera was commissioned by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and her husband John D. Rockefeller Jr. to paint a mural for the lobby of Rockefeller Center. Rivera kept the original, approved plan for the two outer sides of the mural…
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Regina José Galindo- Performance Art Guatemala
Read more: Regina José Galindo- Performance Art GuatemalaRegina Galindo is a Guatemalan performance artist that uses her body as a means to explore many of the human rights violations in Guatemala. In one of her performances, ” no perdemos nada con nacer,” or ” we don’t lose…
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DIY documentarian serves time for refusing to submit video of police brutality during Tompkins Square Park Riots
Read more: DIY documentarian serves time for refusing to submit video of police brutality during Tompkins Square Park RiotsDocumentarian Clayton Patterson captured video of police brutality during the Tompkins Square Park riots in the summer of 1988. When District Attorney Robert Morgenthau ordered Patterson to hand over his camera and tapes as evidence, Patterson refused, citing distrust of…
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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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Meet Red Army Statue: Superman and hero friends
Read more: Meet Red Army Statue: Superman and hero friendsThis article was published on the guardian website: -Russia not amused at Red Army statue re-invented as Superman and friends- Clenched teeth in Moscow over 1950s war memorial in Sofia given makeover by spray-painting street artist By Tom Parfitt in…
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Julia Butterfly Hill and Her Tree sit in Luna
Read more: Julia Butterfly Hill and Her Tree sit in LunaForest activist and environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill spent two years (Dec. 10, 1997-Dec. 18, 1999) living 180 feet high, on two six-by-six-foot platforms, in the canopy of a thousand-year-old redwood tree named Luna to help make the world aware of…
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Tree Felling in Bialowieza Forest
Read more: Tree Felling in Bialowieza ForestGreenpeace advocates displayed a banner outside of the Ministry of the Environment in Warsaw. The banner reads “I love primeval forests” to protest against tree felling in Bialowieza Forest. Protesters dressed as construction workers wearing hard hats and scaling the…