Projects tagged
Shifts (culture)
Shifts the cultural landscape in order to imagine and enable change.
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Wuming Art Collective
Read more: Wuming Art CollectiveThe Wuming Painting Collective, formed in Beijing during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), was a clandestine group of artists who defied the authoritarian control over art and expression. In a time when all art was harnessed as propaganda to glorify the…
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The Art And Activism of Nobuko Miyamoto: How She Became One Of LA’s Most Enduring Performers
Read more: The Art And Activism of Nobuko Miyamoto: How She Became One Of LA’s Most Enduring PerformersIn 1972, something unheard of happened on national television. An Asian American singer-songwriter duo was invited to perform on the widely-watched The Mike Douglas Show by guest hosts John Lennon and Yoko Ono. “They’re beautiful singers,” Lennon said in his…
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State Names
Read more: State Names“State Names” is a painting by Jaune Quick-To-See Smith. You immediately recognize the outline of the United States, but at the same time, that map is obscured and made difficult to read. It’s at once recognizable and not recognizable. She…
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Cao Fei’s Whose Utopia?
Read more: Cao Fei’s Whose Utopia?Whose Utopia? is a color film which is 19 minutes 58 seconds long. It was originally commissioned by the Siemens Arts Program back in 2005. The projector-style video is based on the work and social lives of assembly line workers…
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The Clothesline Project
Read more: The Clothesline ProjectAccording to the Men’s Rape Prevention Project in Washington DC, 58,000 soldiers died in the Vietnam war. During that same period of time, 51,000 women were killed mostly by men who supposedly loved them. In the summer of 1990, that…
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Nail Transphobia
Read more: Nail TransphobiaOver the past few years, the public’s understanding of the issues that transgender people face has grown exponentially, but many people have never actually spoken to a transgender person. To help dispel common myths and preconceptions, 23-year-old trans activist Charlie…
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Red Swing Project
Read more: Red Swing ProjectIn 2007, Andrew Danziger had an architecture class assignment at the University of Texas at Austin to propose an urban intervention in Austin. The goal was to think about public art in unexpected ways. One classmate dreamed up a blank…
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Bad Bunny’s ‘Debí Tirar Más Fotos’ is a form of activism
Read more: Bad Bunny’s ‘Debí Tirar Más Fotos’ is a form of activismBenito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, better known to the world as Bad Bunny, has once again proven that his artistry goes far beyond reggaeton and trap. On January 5, 2025 — the eve of Puerto Rico’s cherished Three Kings Day —…
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Bed Stuy Aquarium
Read more: Bed Stuy AquariumThe Bed-Stuy “aquarium” is back. The neighborhood’s beloved sidewalk fish pond was resurrected this week — in an act of defiance that comes just five days after the city cemented over the original and left the neighborhood’s goldfish to die.…
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Artists Tried to Activate Voters With Billboard Art. Did It Work?
Read more: Artists Tried to Activate Voters With Billboard Art. Did It Work?On Nov. 6, the day after the presidential election, the artist Hank Willis Thomas was at his studio in Brooklyn. His production assistants were poring over tables strewed with blobby red white and blue silk-screen prints of the words “Fragile/…
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IT IS GUNS
Read more: IT IS GUNSIn response to shootings across the United States, and in sympathy with students’ demands for more gun control, artist Jenny Holzer wrote text that animates issues of the firearms industry and gun violence. Her hyperactive black-and-white writing flashed on mobile…
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Hiding in the City
Read more: Hiding in the CityAt the end of 2005, Liu Boln was living in Beijing and working as an artist’s assistant. Beijing’s art world at this time was thriving. On November 16, 2006 when Suo Jia Cun was forcibly demolished, Liu decided to use…