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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…
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L.A. artist commemorates Monterey Park victims with portraits: ‘Remember them as they were’
Read more: L.A. artist commemorates Monterey Park victims with portraits: ‘Remember them as they were’When Jonathan D. Chang visits the 626, he often wears a black hoodie emblazoned with a colorful print of Guangong on the back. A military general from the Three Kingdoms era turned Taoist guardian deity, Guangong, or Guan Yu, is…
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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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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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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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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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Paint the Protest at Off Paradise
Read more: Paint the Protest at Off ParadiseWhat happens to explicitly political art when it’s placed inside of the White Cube? Paint the Protest, a group show curated by Nancy Spector at Off Paradise self-consciously poses this question, and further aims to reveal the place and purpose…
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VIVIENNE WESTWOOD PUTS PROTEST BEFORE THE CLOTHES FOR SPRING 2016
Read more: VIVIENNE WESTWOOD PUTS PROTEST BEFORE THE CLOTHES FOR SPRING 2016While the designer may be more focused on bigger issues, her fashion business is churning on. Just nine days before Vivienne Westwood’s Red Label show, the designer made many British headlines for what may have been her most extreme protest…
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Controversy in the Wild Kingdom of Couture
Read more: Controversy in the Wild Kingdom of CouturePARIS — Ten a.m. on a frigid Monday morning, the first day of the couture shows, and Kylie Jenner was strutting through the marble halls of the Petit Palais trying to find her seat for Schiaparelli, shoehorned into spiky stilettos…