Projects tagged
Advertising & Consumerism
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Pop-Up Studio: Kids’ Campaign to Correct History
Read more: Pop-Up Studio: Kids’ Campaign to Correct HistoryJoin other families in reimagining sports team mascots and logos that misrepresent Native American communities. Design a campaign for alternative names with the help of artists Sam Durant and Elisa Harkins, taking inspiration from the exhibition Jimmie Durham: At the…
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The Guerrilla Girls attack gender and class bias at Art Basel Hong Kong
Read more: The Guerrilla Girls attack gender and class bias at Art Basel Hong KongFor more than 30 years, the Guerrilla Girls have travelled the world exposing sexism and inequality in the art industry, and this week they proved Hong Kong was no exception. Three members of the anonymous feminist collective—calling themselves Frida Kahlo,…
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The story behind the strange 8th Ave. subway statues and the cartoons that inspired them
Read more: The story behind the strange 8th Ave. subway statues and the cartoons that inspired themAt the Eighth Avenue subway station, sewer alligators are not an urban legend. Anyone who’s been through the 14th St./Eighth Ave. station has probably seen the bronze gator sculpture — and probably wondered what it means and why it’s there.…
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Rolezinho Pretoi/Black Stroll
Read more: Rolezinho Pretoi/Black Stroll“How different. Exotic,” commented one women as she watched a group of almost 50 people — mostly young and black, many wearing bright fabrics with African designs — stroll through the Shopping Leblon mall. They came this Monday to participate…
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#wakandathevote
Read more: #wakandathevoteThe Movement for Black Lives recognized a great opportunity to register a whole lot of people to vote: the opening weekend of Black Panther. According to activist Kayla Reed, the campaign has already inspired similar drives all over the country.…
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Hundreds of ‘honey bears’ posted all over SoMa in street art protest
Read more: Hundreds of ‘honey bears’ posted all over SoMa in street art protestLocal artist fnnch wants San Francisco to decriminalize certain types of art. You’re not seeing things: A whopping 450 “honey bears”—variations on the immediately recognizable and widely imitated bear-shaped honey bottles sold in seemingly every store in America–appeared all over…
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Vetements old clothes piles against fast fashion
Read more: Vetements old clothes piles against fast fashionVetements’ trademark is for subverting the fashion industry’s ways of doing things. Following its recent return to the runway after a short one season break, designer Demna Gvasalia has unveiled his latest project. Mirroring its takeover of New York department…
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Molson’s newest red beer fridge touts Canada’s multicultural side
Read more: Molson’s newest red beer fridge touts Canada’s multicultural sideThe Globe and Mail Inc. Written by SUSAN KRASHINSKY MARKETING REPORTER TORONTO PUBLISHED JUNE 25, 2015 UPDATED MARCH 25, 2017 This is one persnickety refrigerator. Molson Coors Brewing Co.’s newest instalment of a now two-year campaign is attempting a new…
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Dismaland
Read more: Dismaland“He describes it as a “family theme park unsuitable for small children” – and with the Grim Reaper whooping it up on the dodgems and Cinderella horribly mangled in a pumpkin carriage crash, it is easy to see why. Banksy’s…
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A Night Of Philosophy And Ideas
Read more: A Night Of Philosophy And Ideas“A Night of Philosophy and Ideas is a thinker’s lollapalooza. The free, 12-hour weekend lyceum at the Brooklyn Public Library includes spirited debate, live music, theater, performance art pieces, and film screenings. At any given hour, five or six different…