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Sustains (change)
Support and celebrate change that has already been won and needs to be sustained.
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Five Times Climate Change and The Environment Inspired Fashion Design
Read more: Five Times Climate Change and The Environment Inspired Fashion DesignThe upcoming year of fashion shows look set to be charged with climate change and environmental themes. This year, more than ever before, we have seen that the business of fashion, at the highest levels, is responding to the push…
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Ukraine Day of Unity
Read more: Ukraine Day of UnityFebruary 24, 2023 will mark one year since the Russian invasion and occupation of Ukraine began. Russia is attempting to take over Ukrainian territory and destroy its rich, vibrant culture. Ukrainians are fighting for their country and right to exist…
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Why Is Iran’s Regime So Afraid of This Song?
Read more: Why Is Iran’s Regime So Afraid of This Song?“Baraye,” the anthem of Iran’s “Woman, Life, Liberty” protest movement—a song woven together entirely from a Twitter hashtag trend in which Iranians express their investment in the current protests—continues to unite Iranians in their opposition to the Islamic Republic several…
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How Keith Haring Made Uncomfortable Topics More Digestible
Read more: How Keith Haring Made Uncomfortable Topics More DigestibleKeith Haring is known to be one of the biggest artists raising awareness for HIV and AIDS, considering he had also passed away from HIV. Starting his career covering ads with spray paint and chalk in subway stations in New…
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Climate Activists Throw Soup on Vincent van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ to Protest Fossil Fuels
Read more: Climate Activists Throw Soup on Vincent van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ to Protest Fossil FuelsOn Friday, in room 43 of London’s National Gallery, two young women opened cans of tomato soup and threw their contents onto Vincent van Gogh’s famous painting Sunflowers. The soup-throwers donned shirts displaying the logo of Just Stop Oil, an…
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Turning powerful stats into art
Read more: Turning powerful stats into artArtist Chris Jordan shows us an arresting view of what Western culture looks like. His supersized images picture some almost unimaginable statistics — like the astonishing number of paper cups we use every single day. https://www.ted.com/talks/chris_jordan_turning_powerful_stats_into_art?r… External sources:
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Sarah Lucas: Self Portrait of Fried Eggs
Read more: Sarah Lucas: Self Portrait of Fried EggsSince her breakout show, Penis Nailed to a Board, held at south London’s City Racing gallery in 1992, British artist Sarah Lucas has never shied from making a statement. Working with sculpture, photography and installation, the Goldsmiths graduate and prominent…
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“Escape the Corset”
Read more: “Escape the Corset”In this black-and-white image, there are no strands of hair or remnants of makeup to be found, except a shaved head belonging to a South Korean. Jeon photographed this image in 2019 for her exhibition that aimed to “destroy the…
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Politics, activism and cool cats by artist Meredith Stern at AS220 Project Space
Read more: Politics, activism and cool cats by artist Meredith Stern at AS220 Project Space“I really wanted to highlight the strength of the human condition. When we work together we’re stronger,” Meredith Stern says of her exhibition “Cooperation Cats: 10 years, 20 prints” at AS220’s Project Space, 93 Mathewson St., Providence, from Feb. 1…
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Gucci model stages mental health protest at Milan fashion week
Read more: Gucci model stages mental health protest at Milan fashion weekIf fashion is a reflection of the times it is little wonder that the current round of shows have often felt discombobulating. Gucci’s show on Sunday night was particularly surreal, opening with a series of models being propelled along a…
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Ai Weiwei’s Colored Vases: Clever Artwork Or Vandalism?
Read more: Ai Weiwei’s Colored Vases: Clever Artwork Or Vandalism?Exhibition visitors have expressed feelings of uneasiness or even pain and nostalgia when seeing Colored Vases by Ai Weiwei1. The 51 vases that make up the artwork are originally treasures from the Neolithic Age (5000–3000 BCE) and the artist has…
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In the wake of Trayvon Martin’s death, the hoodie takes on a greater meaning
Read more: In the wake of Trayvon Martin’s death, the hoodie takes on a greater meaningI was just shy of 18 when I bought the hooded sweatshirt — a metallic silver thing that cost about $10 on the Aeropostale clearance rack — to take with me to Northwestern University in the Chicago suburbs, knowing my…