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Claudio Parentela:Contemporary Art with a Freakish Taste!
Read more: Claudio Parentela:Contemporary Art with a Freakish Taste!Claudio Parentela:Contemporary Art with a Freakish Taste! External sources: https://www.instagram.com/parentelac
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Utopian Infrastructure: The Campesino Basketball Court
Read more: Utopian Infrastructure: The Campesino Basketball CourtThe Mexican Pavilion is an immersive space based on a 1:1 scale fragment of the expanded model of the campesino basketball court, an infrastructure that has become repurposed as a space for poly- and pluri-valent processes of decolonisation in Mexico’s…
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Bondage in Shanghai
Read more: Bondage in ShanghaiThis is a photographic work of Shanghai during the period of the city’s lockdown, in which the artist uses rope as a medium to explore the themes of government coercion and individual survival. In the image, the artist ties a…
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‘It brings out the best in humanity’: the rescuers saving pets from LA’s wildfires
Read more: ‘It brings out the best in humanity’: the rescuers saving pets from LA’s wildfiresRescue workers have swung into action to board, feed and treat displaced animals – and find those who may be trapped. As the wildfires besieged Los Angeles, marauding through hillside suburbs at an impossibly fast and ferocious pace, 500 miles…
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Birds Watching
Read more: Birds WatchingBirds Watching I, 2018 was created for Storm King Art Center’s Indicators: Artists on Climate Change, in partnership with NRDC, which ran from May–Nov 2018, and featured 100 U.S. climate-threatened species derived from Audubon’s first report. That work was reinstalled…
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Maman Sculpture
Read more: Maman SculptureThrough the use of mythical and archetypal iconography, Bourgeois translated her encounters into a very individualized symbolic imagery, employing things such as swirls, arachnids, cages, surgical equipment, and sewed appendages to represent the feminine mind, beauty, and mental agony. The…
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Trump Braille Art
Read more: Trump Braille ArtA blind artist has unveiled an image of Donald Trump in Braille dots, which spell out his conversation with Secret Service agents following the assassination attempt in July 2024. Seconds after the shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, agents tried to move…
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Daughter of a Temple
Read more: Daughter of a Temple“I sing because I genuinely think that if I don’t, I will die…The only thing that gives me relief is this.” – ganavya doraiswamy I’ve been fortunate to witness New York-born, Tamil Nadu-raised, Queer musician ganavya’s work a handful of…
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Memes, Jokes and Cats: South Koreans Use Parody for Political Protest
Read more: Memes, Jokes and Cats: South Koreans Use Parody for Political ProtestAs South Koreans took to the streets this month demanding the ousting of their president, some found an unexpected outlet to express their fury: jokes and satire. They hoisted banners and flags with whimsical messages about cats, sea otters and…
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Pocard – Singapore Version
Read more: Pocard – Singapore VersionConcept 1. This is a participatory art action initiated by Action Office, aiming at questioning current democratic elections in Singapore and shaping an alternative possibility. 2. Design the pocards to resemble ballots, inviting people to fill out election results and…
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U.S./Iraq War Memorial
Read more: U.S./Iraq War MemorialThe U.S./Iraq War Memorial is an augmented reality public art project and memorial, dedicated to the thousands of individuals who have died on both sides of the conflict. The public can simply download and launch the Layar Augmented Reality Browser…
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Portugal’s Carnation Revolution
Read more: Portugal’s Carnation RevolutionCeleste Caeiro, who on April 25, 1974, handed out red carnations to soldiers on their way to ending a 40-year right-wing dictatorship in Portugal, a spontaneous patriotic act that gave a largely bloodless coup its name, the Carnation Revolution, and…