Projects tagged
Shifts (culture)
Shifts the cultural landscape in order to imagine and enable change.
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Flower People
Read more: Flower People“As a Black woman, I can grow absolutely anywhere,” Aiyanna explains. “I can adapt to any storm, any weather, any changes. In the Black community, that’s something that we’re really good at.” So when Aiyanna, 25, was asked to contribute…
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Black Unity- a powerful symbol of the Black Power movement
Read more: Black Unity- a powerful symbol of the Black Power movementSculptor and printmaker Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012) used her art to advocate for social change in both the U.S. and her adopted country of Mexico. Much of her work focuses on the experience of African American life and political struggle during…
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Activists Take to Guggenheim Museum to Denounce Israeli Airstrikes
Read more: Activists Take to Guggenheim Museum to Denounce Israeli AirstrikesThe Guggenheim Museum in New York City temporarily closed off its entrance on Saturday afternoon, November 11, after eight artists and cultural workers took to the institution’s iconic spiral ramp to denounce the Israeli military’s ongoing killing of Palestinian children…
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Protest in Inner Mongolia against CCP’s Mandarin-only Education
Read more: Protest in Inner Mongolia against CCP’s Mandarin-only EducationThousands of ethnic Mongolians have protested across northern China in opposition to Beijing plans to replace the Mongolian language with Chinese in some school subjects. Tuesday marked the first day of a policy revealed in June, to gradually transition the…
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kelli rae adams: Forever in Your Debt, an Exhibition at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
Read more: kelli rae adams: Forever in Your Debt, an Exhibition at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary ArtStudent loan debt in the US today totals over 1.7 trillion dollars and is collectively borne by more than 44 million Americans, including artist kelli rae adams. With her installation Forever in Your Debt, adams converts this abstract burden into…
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Chinese artist speaks out against zero-Covid policy by wearing 27 hazmat suits in Times Square
Read more: Chinese artist speaks out against zero-Covid policy by wearing 27 hazmat suits in Times SquareOn Sunday morning, a puffy, Michelin Man-like figure trudged through Times Square in New York, panting from the exertion of trying to move while wearing 27 hazmat suits. Inside the white cocoon was Zhisheng Wu, a Chinese artist who staged…
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Television Commercial for Communism
Read more: Television Commercial for CommunismTelevision Commercial for Communism: https://vimeo.com/129592556 Formed in 2006, the Propeller Group is a Ho Chi Minh City– and Los Angeles–based collective composed of artists Phunam, Matt Lucero, and Tuan Andrew Nguyen. The convergence of the diverse backgrounds of its members—antique…
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The Rage Over Ramen: A Tale of Classism
Read more: The Rage Over Ramen: A Tale of ClassismAs the cold air bit our faces, and we hid deeper into our layer of sweaters, my family and I continued to wander around Manhattan, seeking a place which would provide warmth and food. And there it was, dimly lit:…
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Beijing Sitong Bridge protest
Read more: Beijing Sitong Bridge protestThe Beijing Sitong Bridge protest was a protest in China during the prelude to the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). On the morning of October 13, 2022, a protester demonstrated against CCP general secretary Xi Jinping’s…
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Bombed-out Nativity Sculpture
Read more: Bombed-out Nativity SculptureThis year, Bethlehem is sombre and quiet. There is no Christmas tree and there are no holiday lights or tourists to see them. Instead, the city of Jesus’s birth – which is in the middle of a war zone –…
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A Viral Dance and ‘Happiness Campaign’ Frustrates Iran’s Clerics
Read more: A Viral Dance and ‘Happiness Campaign’ Frustrates Iran’s ClericsIt all started when a 70-year-old fish market stall owner nicknamed “Booghy” was grooving in public, in violation of Iranian law. A new form of protest against the government is rocking Iran: a viral dance craze set to an upbeat…
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Fighting Violence with Art
Read more: Fighting Violence with ArtOne of the oldest forms of human expression is art, so it’s no surprise that art is constantly used to critique another of humanity’s oldest practices, violence and war. In the world of art activism, the power of creativity and…