Projects tagged
Strengthens (community)
Strengthens, builds and celebrates community through ritual and/or symbol.
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The Many Faces of Yue Minjun
Read more: The Many Faces of Yue MinjunBy NAZANIN LANKARANI PARIS — Five years after his rise to the top of the Chinese contemporary art market, Yue Minjun has something new to smile about. Best known for his large-scale paintings depicting his own smiling face, Mr. Yue,…
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Cartoons Against Corruption
Read more: Cartoons Against CorruptionCartoons Against Corruption is a cartoon based campaign by political cartoonist Aseem Trivedi to support anti corruption movement in India, best known for sharp hard hitting anti corruption cartoons. Using national emblems and current political news, Trivedi creates cartoons that…
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Concrete Creek
Read more: Concrete CreekUtilizing excess construction cement that was being dumped into a creek near Beit Shemesh, Israel, Shai Zakai harnessed the unclaimed cement to create an art installation that brought awareness to the ongoing pollution. The project was entitled, ‘Concrete Creek’ aimed…
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Welcome to the Cantareira Desert
Read more: Welcome to the Cantareira DesertA grey minivan rattled through São Paulo’s hilly suburbs, loaded with spray cans, paint rollers, buckets and a ladder as five street artists drove to the Atibainha river, rap lyrics blaring from their speakers. On the sweltering afternoon of 26…
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Eco-Music Big Band
Read more: Eco-Music Big Band“Writing Political Music in Today’s World” I began studying composition with Fred Ho without knowing quite what I was getting myself into. I was 25 with a fresh graduate degree in composition under my belt, lost in that special way…
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#SaveNYC
Read more: #SaveNYC#SaveNYC is a grassroots, crowd-sourced, DIY movement to protect and preserve the diversity and uniqueness of the urban fabric in New York City. As our vibrant streetscapes and neighborhoods are turned into bland, suburban-style shopping malls, filled with chain stores…
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Cats Against Cat Calling
Read more: Cats Against Cat Calling“Cats Against Cat Calling” began online as a movement under same slogan, powered through Hollaback! Hollaback! is an activist collective seeking to end street harassment. Working through a network of activists in various locations, Hollaback! encourages individuals to stand up…
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Google Street Art Project
Read more: Google Street Art ProjectGoogle entered the art game in 2011 with the introduction of its Art Project, working with 17 museums and expanding further to over 150 institutions in 2012. Last June, Google added 5,000 images of street art from around the world…
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In Search of Dignity and Justice
Read more: In Search of Dignity and JusticeIn Search of Dignity and Justice About 30,000 conservancy workers, also known as sweepers, are employed by the Great Bombay Municipal Corporation. These workers collect the city’s garbage, sweep the streets, clean the gutters, load and unload garbage trucks and…
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Bloodline: Big Family
Read more: Bloodline: Big FamilyThe immediate prototypes of Zhang Xiaogang’s Big Family series are formal group photographic portraits from the 1950’s and 60’s, including those of Zhang’s own family, a source of the painter’s “endless reveries.” From these old black-and-white pictures Zhang Xiaogang derived…
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If I Don’t Get Pants Nobody Gets Pants
Read more: If I Don’t Get Pants Nobody Gets PantsSubmission for The Line is Drawn, theme “Male superheroes see how the other side lives”. Wonder Woman makes the rest of the JLA wear various costumes she’s had over the years. External sources: https://theamat.deviantart.com/art/If-I-don-t-get-pants-nobody-gets-pants-2880251…
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Rubble Bucket Challenge aims to raise awareness about Gaza
Read more: Rubble Bucket Challenge aims to raise awareness about GazaAs the rest of the world continues to dump buckets of cold water over their heads in support of ALS research, some Palestinians have created their own version of the Ice Bucket Challenge to raise awareness about the ongoing crisis…