Projects tagged
Strengthens (community)
Strengthens, builds and celebrates community through ritual and/or symbol.
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Keith Haring’s Barcelona mural: A vibrant call to action
Read more: Keith Haring’s Barcelona mural: A vibrant call to actionA vibrant red mural in the heart of Barcelona serves as both an artistic expression and social activism. Officially known as the Todos Juntos Podemos Parar el SIDA (Together We Can Stop AIDS), the public art was created by the…
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Jolin Cai and Womxnly
Read more: Jolin Cai and WomxnlyThe famous pop singer Jolin Tsai (蔡依林 Cài Yīlín) wrote and released a song named “Rose Boy” (official English title “Womxnly”) in 2018, inspired by the story of Yeh Yung-chih (叶永志 Yè Yǒngzhì), also known as “Rose Boy” (méiguī shǎonián…
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Bat Cloud
Read more: Bat CloudA dark cloud hovers above a stand of Eastern cottonwood trees in Tifft Nature Preserve, a 264-acre woodland nature refuge on Lake Erie. But this is no ordinary cloud; it is a high-tech habitat for one of the world’s most…
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Sneaking Female Curves Through Instagram’s Ban
Read more: Sneaking Female Curves Through Instagram’s BanIt all began during Claudia’s final art project at the London College of Communication, where she delved into the issue of “sexual objectification of women,” a topic close to her heart as she navigated her womanhood. Her initial series, “Scenery,”…
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Design For Freedom Summit Shares Strategies For Removing Modern-Day Slavery From Building And Construction Supply Chain
Read more: Design For Freedom Summit Shares Strategies For Removing Modern-Day Slavery From Building And Construction Supply ChainShackles. Cotton. The Big House. Americans tend to think of slavery in terms of chattel slavery. Plantation Slavery. Slavery where human beings are bought, sold, and owned. The kind outlawed in the United States by the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.…
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Healing through sound and community art
Read more: Healing through sound and community artGlowing softly in the West Texas desert night, artist Guadalupe Maravilla’s Mariposa Relámpago, was once an ordinary school bus but is now a richly decorated, mobile site for remembrance and healing. Like much of the artist’s work, this piece commemorates…
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Nara Yoshitomo “No Nukes (Untitled)”
Read more: Nara Yoshitomo “No Nukes (Untitled)”An early representation of Nara’s strong stance against nuclear weapons, No Nukes is now synonymous with the antinuclear protest movement. The work is painted over a promotional poster for bossa nova musician Vinicius Cantuária’s Amor Brasileiro (1998) among other printed…
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Project Row Houses, 1993-2018, Houston (Texas)
Read more: Project Row Houses, 1993-2018, Houston (Texas)Collective Creativity in the Beginning Project Row Houses (PRH) is, and has always been, a unique experiment in activating the intersections between art, cultural and historic preservation, affordable and innovative housing, community engagement and development, neighborhood revitalization, and human empowerment.…
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Horrible bosses: masked activists publicly shame businesses in Bologna
Read more: Horrible bosses: masked activists publicly shame businesses in BolognaOn a warm summer afternoon in the Italian city of Bologna, a group of around 15 young people march through the crowded city centre to a high-end pastry shop in Strada Maggiore. Once there, they don white plastic masks, and…
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Photographing the hidden – Violence Unseen
Read more: Photographing the hidden – Violence UnseenUK photographer Alicia Bruce collaborated with Zero Tolerance, a Scottish non-profit to end GBV, to produce a new version of the Violence Unseen campaign, launched for the first time in the 1990s and created by Franki Raffles. The new one…
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‘Once in a generation moment’ — Zelensky, Ukraine’s partners gather for key London summit after White House fallout
Read more: ‘Once in a generation moment’ — Zelensky, Ukraine’s partners gather for key London summit after White House falloutUkraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, French President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, and other top Western officials gathered on March 2 for a London summit to discuss support for Kyiv. They are among the…
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An Italian farming community gathers for the funeral of traditional agriculture.
Read more: An Italian farming community gathers for the funeral of traditional agriculture.Omelia Contadina was born out of the concern of JR and director Alice Rohrwacher for the difficulties encountered by many small farmers and inhabitants of the Alfina plateau, in Italy. Alice Rohrwacher explains the origins of the project: “Last autumn,…