Projects tagged
Arts & Culture
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The vital work of women street photographers
Read more: The vital work of women street photographersIn 2016, photojournalist Gulnara Samoilova was running a successful wedding photography business. Her diverse portfolio of work spans two decades — with images in the permanent collections of The New York Public Library, 9/11 Memorial Museum and Houston Museum of…
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#IAmMySong
Read more: #IAmMySongIn response to a memo from Afghanistan’s education ministry, Ahmad Sarmast, the founder of Afghanistan’s Institute of Music, began a Twitter campaign with the hashtag #IAmMySong. In response to the hashtag, Afghan girls have taken to Twitter with videos of…
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Love Queer Cinema Week (aka the Beijing Queer Film Festival)
Read more: Love Queer Cinema Week (aka the Beijing Queer Film Festival)Founded 19 years ago, the Beijing Queer Film Festival (aka Love Queer Cinema Week) is one of the grassroots film festivals in China focusing on independent queer film screenings and cultural exchange activities. We aim to expand public discussions on…
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It Looks Like Bansky Has Struck the Wall of England’s Reading Prison, Which Once Detained Oscar Wilde, in His Latest Mural
Read more: It Looks Like Bansky Has Struck the Wall of England’s Reading Prison, Which Once Detained Oscar Wilde, in His Latest Mural“It appears that Banksy has struck again, this time painting the brick wall of the former Reading Prison in Berkshire, England, where Oscar Wilde was jailed for two years over his “indecent” affair with Lord Alfred Douglas. In the new…
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CRIPPING CHOREOGRAPHY
Read more: CRIPPING CHOREOGRAPHY“Rainer’s early choreography celebrated, among other things, ordinary movements: the expressive capacities of kneeling, of shaking your head, of rolling on the floor. And when she went through periods of sickness, those movements became an even more important part of…
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Powerful photos of the lives of young Syrian refugees through their eyes
Read more: Powerful photos of the lives of young Syrian refugees through their eyesThis month marks ten years since the start of the Syrian Civil War, an ongoing conflict that has cruelly cut the lives of hundreds of thousands short, and irrevocably changed the course of millions more. An estimated 5.6 million have…
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Journey of a Yellow Man
Read more: Journey of a Yellow ManSingaporean artist Lee Wen’s series Journey of a Yellow Man (1992–2012), one of his most famous and long-standing performances, was not simply a personal affront, it was a political affront. At the intersection of Asian art history, critical race theory, and migration…
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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio
Read more: Ricardo Levins Morales Art StudioRicardo Levins Morales is an artist and organizer based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was born into the anti-colonial movement in Puerto Rico, and when his family moved to Chicago in 1967, he became interested in activism. After leaving high school…
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People of Japan is a snapshot of daily life across Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka
Read more: People of Japan is a snapshot of daily life across Tokyo, Kyoto and OsakaFor his latest project, Mark Manzi found himself outside of his comfort zone. For the Amsterdam-based photographer and designer, People of Japan was an attempt to break from his photography-first portfolio. “In the past, my work was very image-focused, whereas…
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Inviting Strangers and Homeless people for Dinner
Read more: Inviting Strangers and Homeless people for DinnerBrother Gao are two China artists. Their works are aims at reflecting the reality of Chinese society in an artistic and critical view. In 2003, the brothers held an event to invite many strangers for a dinner. The people they…