Projects tagged
Arts & Culture
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Waffles + Mochi
Read more: Waffles + Mochi“Michelle Obama’s mission of encouraging kids to eat healthier is getting a global spin — and a few puppet allies. The former first lady is launching a kids’ cooking show on Netflix as part of the production deal between Netflix…
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Harris Reed is building a fantasy world for gender-fluid fashion
Read more: Harris Reed is building a fantasy world for gender-fluid fashionLast June, Harris Reed became a member of the “Class of 2020” — the crop of young fashion talent who graduated into an industry on rocky ground due to the pandemic. Over the eight months that have passed since earning…
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Shh
Read more: ShhA street photography exhibition located in Beijing’s most crowded tourist attractions, Dongsi Hutong, to get a voice the Chinese government’s censorship of art works in public space. To hedge the city’s regulation , the human body photography were displayed in…
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Daughter of China
Read more: Daughter of ChinaChen Boer’s first heroine film, which she co-wrote and directed, was “Daughter of China,” about female soldiers in the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army. They didn’t have much filmed material at the time, but as a feminist, Chen Boer clearly wanted…
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The Chronicles of Resilience
Read more: The Chronicles of ResilienceFor FX Harsono, art is activism. Over the past four decades, performance, sculpture, and painting have become his means of nonviolent protest against government autocracy and ethnic strife in Indonesia. In his current exhibition The Chronicles of Resilience, curated by…
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‘Wolf Warrior artist’ strives to use new art to spread truth and inspire patriotism
Read more: ‘Wolf Warrior artist’ strives to use new art to spread truth and inspire patriotismWith delicate composition, striking details and strong emotion, five editorial posters drawn by Wuheqilin have attracted some half million followers to his account on Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter-like social media platform. His political views expressed in his art have led…
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Red Envelope Movement in London
Read more: Red Envelope Movement in LondonWorld Microphone (世界麦克风) is an organization created by students (most of them are Chinese) located in London. The organization has an account in RED, which is a popular social media in China. It often holds interviews and movements on the…
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‘Framing Britney Spears’
Read more: ‘Framing Britney Spears’“Spears entered the conservatorship in 2008, at age 26, when her struggles were on public display. Now she is 39, and a growing number of her fans are agitating on her behalf, raising questions about civil liberties while trying to…
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Las Carpetas
Read more: Las Carpetas“Las Carpetas looks at the bureaucratic residue of a 40-year-long secret surveillance program that aimed to destroy the Puerto Rican Independence Movement. Through still-lives, archival appropriation, and investigation, Christopher Gregory-Rivera provides a counter-history to the way many understand this period…
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Fashion label Vaqar is dispelling conservative perceptions of what Iranian fashion looks like
Read more: Fashion label Vaqar is dispelling conservative perceptions of what Iranian fashion looks likeIran is a nation with a fine art tradition that stretches back thousands of years; its reputation for contemporary fashion design less so. Writing that from an external, Western perspective may read unduly dismissive, but it’s a statement that holds…