Projects tagged
Arts & Culture
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the Fundred Project
Read more: the Fundred ProjectThe Fundred Dollar Bill Project, initiated by artist Mel Chin, is a collaborative art project aimed at raising awareness and mobilizing action against the environmental and health threat of lead contamination. It encourages individuals to create their own unique interpretations…
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Black Dandyism, the 2025 Met Gala’s Theme, Has Its Roots in 18th-Century Painting
Read more: Black Dandyism, the 2025 Met Gala’s Theme, Has Its Roots in 18th-Century PaintingA young Black boy, wearing deep red livery with gold trimming, a gold earring, and red-and-white turban secured with a jeweled brooch, stares out at the viewer. Standing before a ship at sea, he hands a letter, addressed to “Monsieur…
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New Orleans students showcase their creativity with iPad and Mac
Read more: New Orleans students showcase their creativity with iPad and MacOn a drizzly, overcast afternoon, all is quiet at the intersection of Bartholomew and Prieur streets in New Orleans’ historic Ninth Ward. The quiet neighborhood around the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music (EMCM) feel worlds away from the historic French…
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Ricardo Levins Morales – Art for Environmental Justice
Read more: Ricardo Levins Morales – Art for Environmental JusticeBased in Minnesota, Morales creates prints and posters that address environmental and social justice issues. His art is used in grassroots movements, combining vivid imagery with messages of resistance and hope. “This is explicitly political art,” said Becca Lo Presti,…
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Andrea Bowers: Art for Social Justice
Read more: Andrea Bowers: Art for Social Justice“Artist Andrea Bowers creates powerful works addressing immigration, gender violence, and environmental justice. Her large-scale drawing ‘No Olvidado’ memorializes migrants who died crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, calling attention to the human cost of border policies.” Bowers artworks and site specific…
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Wuming Art Collective
Read more: Wuming Art CollectiveThe Wuming Painting Collective, formed in Beijing during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), was a clandestine group of artists who defied the authoritarian control over art and expression. In a time when all art was harnessed as propaganda to glorify the…
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The Art And Activism of Nobuko Miyamoto: How She Became One Of LA’s Most Enduring Performers
Read more: The Art And Activism of Nobuko Miyamoto: How She Became One Of LA’s Most Enduring PerformersIn 1972, something unheard of happened on national television. An Asian American singer-songwriter duo was invited to perform on the widely-watched The Mike Douglas Show by guest hosts John Lennon and Yoko Ono. “They’re beautiful singers,” Lennon said in his…
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Bad Bunny’s ‘Debí Tirar Más Fotos’ is a form of activism
Read more: Bad Bunny’s ‘Debí Tirar Más Fotos’ is a form of activismBenito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, better known to the world as Bad Bunny, has once again proven that his artistry goes far beyond reggaeton and trap. On January 5, 2025 — the eve of Puerto Rico’s cherished Three Kings Day —…
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Bed Stuy Aquarium
Read more: Bed Stuy AquariumThe Bed-Stuy “aquarium” is back. The neighborhood’s beloved sidewalk fish pond was resurrected this week — in an act of defiance that comes just five days after the city cemented over the original and left the neighborhood’s goldfish to die.…
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Artists Tried to Activate Voters With Billboard Art. Did It Work?
Read more: Artists Tried to Activate Voters With Billboard Art. Did It Work?On Nov. 6, the day after the presidential election, the artist Hank Willis Thomas was at his studio in Brooklyn. His production assistants were poring over tables strewed with blobby red white and blue silk-screen prints of the words “Fragile/…