Projects tagged
Strengthens (community)
Strengthens, builds and celebrates community through ritual and/or symbol.
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“Cuntrol”
Read more: “Cuntrol”It’s almost no surprise that the Supreme Court overturning of Roe v. Wade happened this past week. Since its enaction in 1973, there have been numerous occasions where politicians and people alike have tried hacking away at its success in…
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“Your body is a battleground”
Read more: “Your body is a battleground”A woman’s head is bisected by a line that splits her face into positive and negative halves. Over the image, a commanding text, stated in the second person, reads: “Your body is a battleground.” Artist Barbara Kruger’s famous collage —…
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Federal Trade Commission demands Elon Musk ‘identify all journalists’ who had access to Twitter Files
Read more: Federal Trade Commission demands Elon Musk ‘identify all journalists’ who had access to Twitter Fileshe Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is demanding Elon Musk turn over internal Twitter documents, including a list of the journalists who were behind the viral “Twitter Files.” The Wall Street Journal first reported Tuesday about more than a dozen letters…
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Michael Moore demands nationwide boycott of Walgreens for not selling abortion pill: ‘Bigotry and misogyny’
Read more: Michael Moore demands nationwide boycott of Walgreens for not selling abortion pill: ‘Bigotry and misogyny’Filmmaker Michael Moore has called for a nationwide boycott of Walgreens after the pharmacy chain announced it would not sell abortion pills in 20 states. n February, 20 Republican state attorneys general wrote to Walgreens Corp. threatening legal action if…
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Project Black Mask HK
Read more: Project Black Mask HK“Project Black Mask HK (PBMHK) was founded by a (then) 18-year-old, Joyce Ho, who is an American-born Hong Konger. On May 28, 2020, during a peak of the Coronavirus Pandemic, many people expressed frustration with their inability to protest on…
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The Story of Let Hair Down and her confrontations with the NYPD
Read more: The Story of Let Hair Down and her confrontations with the NYPDKanami Kusakima, also known as the woman who dances in Washington Square Park with the long black hair and the paint, was happy to allow the Mayor’s Office of NYC use her image as a promotional tool for a “post-coivd”…
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Climate Activists Deface Constitutional Monument in Germany with Black Paint, Posters
Read more: Climate Activists Deface Constitutional Monument in Germany with Black Paint, PostersClimate activists defaced a work of art near Germany’s Parliament Saturday in the latest act of vandalism by protestors concerned with environmental policy. Members of The Last Generation threw black liquid over a series of glass plates displaying 19 articles…
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“We stand in solidarity”-Asian American Artist Confront Racism
Read more: “We stand in solidarity”-Asian American Artist Confront RacismUnleashed by anxiety over the pandemic, the nationwide rise in anti-Asian hate has served as a call to action for many Asian American artists to take a stand: To actively challenge the historic negative stereotype of the vice- and disease-ridden…
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Occupy Museums Hosts a Faux Graduation Ceremony at the Whitney Museum
Read more: Occupy Museums Hosts a Faux Graduation Ceremony at the Whitney MuseumThe Whitney Museum of American Art’s pay-what-you-wish Fridays are typically busy. For two-and-a-half hours out of the 53 the museum is open each week, visitors can enter without paying the usual $25 admission fee, a brief and temporary, but recurrent,…
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Ice Watch London
Read more: Ice Watch LondonThe Guardian: Olafur Eliasson is putting the chill into climate change. The revered Scandinavian artist has placed 24 large blocks of centuries-old ice, harvested from the Nuup Kangerlua fjord in Greenland, in a circle outside the Tate Modern in London,…
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Tamir Rice legacy shows how artists can sensitively engage with racially charged history
Read more: Tamir Rice legacy shows how artists can sensitively engage with racially charged historyCLEVELAND, Ohio – Dana Schutz, the acclaimed New York artist who trained at the Cleveland Institute of Art, famously stirred controversy at the 2017 Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art with “Open Casket,’’ her painting depicting Emmett Till’s…
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Hair Nah
Read more: Hair NahHair Nah (https://hairnah.com/) is a game created by Momo Pixel, a Black woman who wanted to represent how it feels for people to touch her hair without consent. The game is fun but also impactful, especially with the mechanic of…