Projects tagged
Arts & Culture
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Chinatown gets animated in campaign against 76ers arena plan with bevy of protest art on display
Read more: Chinatown gets animated in campaign against 76ers arena plan with bevy of protest art on displayWander around Chinatown and you’ll find a simple message plastered along storefronts and the sides of buildings: NO ARENA. The posters are usually sparse, text-heavy and straight to the point. Since last year, residents and shop owners in Chinatown have…
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“Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?”
Read more: “Do women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?”National Museum of Women In the Arts: To maintain their anonymity, group members wear gorilla masks in public and adopt the names of historic women artists, such as Käthe Kollwitz and Frida Kahlo, as pseudonyms. Guerrilla Girls posters first appeared…
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As the Taliban Curbs Women’s Rights, Advocates Demand Action
Read more: As the Taliban Curbs Women’s Rights, Advocates Demand ActionIn December – as many around the globe were preparing for the holidays – Sama, a former attorney, remained hunkered down in her house in Kabul, Afghanistan, trying to comprehend how her world had changed. The Taliban had just released…
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Celebrating the history of black creativity
Read more: Celebrating the history of black creativity“A Tanzanian-born, Preston-based artist, curator and cultural activist, Lubaina Himid aims to ‘fill in the gaps of history’, giving representation to marginalised histories and to what was previously invisible or silenced. Significantly, Himid’s art reinserts black narratives into the forefront…
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How Keith Haring used art for good
Read more: How Keith Haring used art for goodIt’s the radiant baby, the barking dog and the dancing man; the badges and the t-shirts; the unmissable mural spelling out CRACK IS WACK. Keith Haring’s career was short but spectacular, and he leaves behind a lasting legacy. From his…
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“Don’t Call Me Chief”: Native Artists Protest Racist NFL Mascots
Read more: “Don’t Call Me Chief”: Native Artists Protest Racist NFL MascotsPHOENIX — As Super Bowl LVII was getting underway in Glendale, Arizona, on February 12, artist and Apache Skateboards founder Douglas Miles (San Carlos Apache, Akimel O’odham) was protesting racist mascots in the NFL by painting a mural-style portrait of…
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When Art Meets Science: The Hyberbolic Crochet Coral Reef
Read more: When Art Meets Science: The Hyberbolic Crochet Coral ReefThe “Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef,” a unique exhibition and thought-provoking fusion of science, conservation, mathematics, and art, is on display in Washington, D.C., at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. By engaging local communities to crochet coral reefs, the…
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Nikkolas Smith: Art Can Help Show That Black Lives Matter. It Can Also Lead to Activism
Read more: Nikkolas Smith: Art Can Help Show That Black Lives Matter. It Can Also Lead to ActivismWhen I watched them kill Elijah McClain, I couldn’t make any art for days. It had been week after week after week of gut-wrenching stories of Black lives taken from this earth too early. I wasn’t sure if I could…
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NFL-Indigenous activists to protest Kansas City Chiefs name, ‘tomahawk chop’
Read more: NFL-Indigenous activists to protest Kansas City Chiefs name, ‘tomahawk chop’Native American groups are expected to protest the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday, calling for the AFC champions to drop their name and logo as they take on the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl 57. The Chiefs wear the arrowhead…
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‘They’ve taken away my freedom’: the truth about the UK state’s crackdown on protesters
Read more: ‘They’ve taken away my freedom’: the truth about the UK state’s crackdown on protestersMelissa is a down-to-earth, friendly woman in her 50s, and it seems that she has always met life with a certain amount of courage. She grew up on another continent, and after early motherhood, then divorce and a first career…