Projects tagged
Shifts (culture)
Shifts the cultural landscape in order to imagine and enable change.
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Jameela Jamil says she’s ‘not here to be liked’: ‘I am not a trend, I am a human being’
Read more: Jameela Jamil says she’s ‘not here to be liked’: ‘I am not a trend, I am a human being’Jameela Jamil has opened up about how she’s “not here to be liked” in a frank new interview with Meghan Markle. In the latest episode of Archetypes, Meghan’s Spotify podcast, the Duchess speaks with both Jamil and Shohreh Aghdashloo about…
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Destruction of the National Front
Read more: Destruction of the National FrontTATE: Destruction of the National Front by the artist Eddie Chambers is a collage on four panels depicting the deconstruction of an image of the Union flag shaped as a swastika. For the first panel in the sequence, the artist…
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Sun Mu: From Propaganda to Protest
Read more: Sun Mu: From Propaganda to Protest“Sun Mu is not the artist’s actual name. It’s a nom de plume that uses a combination of two Korean words that translate to ‘The Absence of Borders’. It not only represents what he feels is the transcendence of art…
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The Guerrilla Girls: ‘We upend the art world’s notion of what’s good and what’s right’
Read more: The Guerrilla Girls: ‘We upend the art world’s notion of what’s good and what’s right’In 1984, a group of women in New York gathered outside the Museum of Modern Art as part of a protest. A group show, An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, was showing 165 artists, 152 male artists exhibited…
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The French Like Protesting, but This Frenchman May Like It the Most
Read more: The French Like Protesting, but This Frenchman May Like It the MostA human tide swept through Paris last month for the type of event France knows only too well — a protest. Union leaders led the march, awash in a multicolored sea of flags. Demonstrators shouted fiery slogans. Clashes with the…
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Animal-rights activist Le Fou Uses Street Art To Save Animals
Read more: Animal-rights activist Le Fou Uses Street Art To Save AnimalsAnimal-rights activist and artist Constantin Le Fou has made his ‘Vegan Club’ celebrity street art a Los Angeles staple. If you’ve been vegan for a while, then you’re likely familiar with the joke, “The first rule of ‘vegan club’ is:…
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William Shatner targets Hewlett-Packard for toxic waste
Read more: William Shatner targets Hewlett-Packard for toxic wasteHewlett-Packard pledged to stop using dangerous plastics in its computers by 2009. It broke that promise. Will a company-wide voicemail from William Shatner make it change its mind? When the employees of Hewlett-Packard checked their messages yesterday, they got a…
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Girls Like Girls
Read more: Girls Like GirlsSongs That Defined the Decade: Hayley Kiyoko’s ‘Girls Like Girls’ Billboard is celebrating the 2010s with essays on the 100 songs that we feel most define the decade that was — the songs that both shaped and reflected the music…
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“Supporting Ukraine Is Not a Choice, But Our Common Duty”: How a Group of Artist-Activists Is Supporting Ukraine From Warsaw
Read more: “Supporting Ukraine Is Not a Choice, But Our Common Duty”: How a Group of Artist-Activists Is Supporting Ukraine From WarsawIn 2023, it is impossible to be an apolitical artist in Eastern Europe. As war rages on in Ukraine, art serves as a powerful and necessary tool, according the members of the Sunflower Solidary Community Center in Warsaw: Maria Beburia,…
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Dismaland
Read more: DismalandIn August 2015, Weston-Super-Mare – a sleepy seaside town in Somerset, England – suddenly became the top destination for the metropolitan elite, welcoming celebrity guests like Brad Pitt, Jack Black and Mark Ronson. Overnight this quaint town, just 18 miles…
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The Problem We All Live With
Read more: The Problem We All Live WithThe Norman Rockwell Museum is very unique. It attracts people of all ages from all around the world to visit. I’ve heard adults saying “I remember selling that copy of The Post door to door!” or seen children’s excited faces…
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For What It’s Worth, Buffalo Springfield
Read more: For What It’s Worth, Buffalo SpringfieldReleased as a single on 23 December 1966, Buffalo Springfield’s For What It’s Worth became the short-lived but talent-packed band’s biggest hit, reaching No.7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the spring of 1967. Even so, its impact transcended…