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How to Colour Reality!
Read more: How to Colour Reality!In the era of New Media, we share media content with a single click. We co-create the reality of our world, often without thinking how this reality is “real.” Nevertheless, what if this reality is sometimes somewhat coloured? Students of…
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Buses in Seoul install ‘comfort women’ statues to honour former sex slaves
Read more: Buses in Seoul install ‘comfort women’ statues to honour former sex slavesBuses serving several routes in central Seoul have acquired a new and highly controversial passenger: a barefoot “comfort woman”, wearing a traditional hanbok dress with her hands resting on her knees. Appearing on the front seat of buses in the…
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Video Art on China’s Demolished Urban Scenery
Read more: Video Art on China’s Demolished Urban SceneryRumba II: Nomad (3’24” excerpt) 2015 / video / 14mins 16secs Sound by Dickson Dee Commissioned by GUCCI The urban fringe of Beijing is the loosen bricks from fragmented land. A result of urban development. The dynamic and complex urban…
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Iranian Documentary ‘The Gardener’, on Religion and Baha’i Garden
Read more: Iranian Documentary ‘The Gardener’, on Religion and Baha’i GardenThe Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf opens “The Gardener” with the declaration: “I am an agnostic filmmaker.” From anyone else, this might seem like a simple statement, but not from the complex Mr. Makhmalbaf. In 1974, when he was 17, religious…
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10 Rappers Turned Social Activists-Vince Staples
Read more: 10 Rappers Turned Social Activists-Vince StaplesVince Staples mentioned Long Beach’s Ramona Park approximately 80 times on his debut album Summertime ’06 and even allotted the park two of its own tracks: “Ramona Park Legend Pt. 1” and “Ramona Park Legend Pt. 2.” “The sun come…
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The Bushwick Collective transforms neighborhood
Read more: The Bushwick Collective transforms neighborhoodConceived and curated by Bushwick native Joe Ficalora, the Bushwick Collective has evolved into an extraordinary open-air gallery since its first mural surfaced in 2011. Attracting a wondrous array of local, national and international artists, it showcases first-rate street art…
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What Else Could We Speak About?
Read more: What Else Could We Speak About?DEATH IN VENICE by: Kaelen Wilson-Goldie One of the most controversial figures in the recent history of the Mexico City art scene, Margolles has been making work from the material traces of death for 20 years. In 1989, she joined…
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Textile Meditations: Mary Fisher and Friends
Read more: Textile Meditations: Mary Fisher and FriendsMary Fisher wears many hats: Artist, author, and HIV/AIDS activist are just a few. The latter is perhaps what she’s known best for—her influential speech at the 1992 Republication National Convention is regarded as one of the greatest American speeches…
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A Night Of Philosophy And Ideas
Read more: A Night Of Philosophy And Ideas“A Night of Philosophy and Ideas is a thinker’s lollapalooza. The free, 12-hour weekend lyceum at the Brooklyn Public Library includes spirited debate, live music, theater, performance art pieces, and film screenings. At any given hour, five or six different…
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Red Paint Splashed on Roosevelt Statue after second “Anti-Columbus Day Tour”
Read more: Red Paint Splashed on Roosevelt Statue after second “Anti-Columbus Day Tour”Just weeks after activists staged an alternative tour of the American Museum of Natural History to call for its removal, among other things, the equestrian statue of Teddy Roosevelt was vandalized early Thursday morning. The base of the statue, which…
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“HALT”
Read more: “HALT”In Halt, a new solo piece premiered at NYU Gallatin, dancer and choreographer Jamar Roberts examined the language of the body in protest. The work focuses on what it means for human beings-the committed individual and the organized collective- to…
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ESTUDIANTE MILITANTE: University of Puerto Rico Student Movement and campus occupation.
Read more: ESTUDIANTE MILITANTE: University of Puerto Rico Student Movement and campus occupation.El Estudiante Militante is a giant puppet built by the members of Papel Machete and students of the University of Puerto Rico during the first three days of the 2010 student strike at a cultural camp established by the theater…