Projects tagged
Animal Rights
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Sunaura Taylor
Read more: Sunaura TaylorSunaura Taylor is an artist, writer and activist. Through painting, printmaking, writing and other forms of political and artistic engagement her work intervenes with dominant historical narratives of disability and animal oppression. Taylor’s artworks have been exhibited at venues across…
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Empty the Cages
Read more: Empty the CagesFifty-six-year-old Dan Witz — who originally hails from Chicago but lives in Brooklyn — has been producing street art in New York since the seventies. And not just any street art. Wondrous works that trick the eye and often elude…
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“Save the Bees” Street Art
Read more: “Save the Bees” Street ArtColony collapse disorder is a colossal issue – and artist Louis Masai wants you take notice. His street art project “Save the Bees” aims to catch your attention by covering the walls of London with bees. Bees are extremely important…
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“I’m Here: A Chilean initiative that makes visible street dogs
Read more: “I’m Here: A Chilean initiative that makes visible street dogsThis is one of the noblest urban interventions I’ve seen lately. Two girls who go to a subway station in Santiago, Chile with lots of colorful balloons with helium. In the balloons write messages like “touch me”, “hold me”, “adopt…
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People as Meat
Read more: People as MeatNaked members of the animal rights group PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) impersonated cellophane-wrapped meat packages in a pro-vegan demonstration demonizing the way the meat industry treats animals in front of a Vancouver slaughterhouse. Protesters, covered in…
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Pandas on Tour
Read more: Pandas on TourGrangeon’s long-running traveling exhibit, Pandas on Tour, features 1600 papier-mâché pandas. That’s approximately one for as many as there are left in the world (recent estimates actually place the number slightly below that, at 1596). Each papier-mâché sculpture represents a…
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Activists make a dramatic statement about the slaughter of dolphins
Read more: Activists make a dramatic statement about the slaughter of dolphinsAn Israeli member of the Taiji Dolphin Action Group, with a red body painting to evoke blood, is curled up on a sheet depicting the Japanese flag, during a January 30, 2014 protest against the killing of dolphins, notably in…
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Sirens of the Lambs
Read more: Sirens of the LambsSirens of the Lambs By Banksy A slaughterhouse delivery truck touring the meatpacking district and then citywide for the next two weeks. http://www.banksyny.com/# Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDIz7mEJOeA External sources: http://www.banksyny.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDIz7mEJOeA http://www.streetartnews.net/2013/10/banksy-stuffed-animals-new-truck.html
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Bon Appetit
Read more: Bon AppetitCreative Graffiti at the Urban Culture Festival in Germany By Loredana Loy A street art project by by KD Key Detail from Minsk, Belarus–created and featured at the IBUg 2013 Urban Culture Festival in Zwickau, Germany. The project is entitled…
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Animal rights activists march in downtown L.A.
Read more: Animal rights activists march in downtown L.A.Animal rights activists march in downtown L.A. By Kelly Goff Ann Bradley is a passionate vegan. The 60-year-old Silver Lake resident said she wasn’t always, though. “I ate it, I wore it, I sat on it, I went to circuses,…