Projects tagged
Arts & Culture
-
Pop Art as Social Commentary
Read more: Pop Art as Social CommentaryA Côte d’Ivoire-based artist, known as Kadarick, draws on the fantastical powers of The Hulk, Spiderman and Wonder Woman to articulate today’s fears. In a new pop-art series of 23 paintings titled Joker, the self-taught painter explores pop culture, politics,…
-
The Whole World Is An Art School
Read more: The Whole World Is An Art SchoolBob and Roberta Smith has been at the forefront of activist art for 2 decades; so who better to ask about how art is responding to these politically bleak times? “THE WHOLE WORLD IS AN ART SCHOOL!” is the emblazoned…
-
#BeyChella
Read more: #BeyChellaBeyoncé delivered an intensely, unapologetic celebration of Black and HBCU culture at the Coachella Festival 2 weekends in a row. Not only were her performances some of the best live performances to date but they sent a pretty significant message…
-
Making Fun
Read more: Making FunOh, the lack of humanity! We’re defined by our commute. Home to work, work to home, rinse and repeat. We can blame the inundation of ugly mass advertising or distracting technology for society’s decline into autopilot, but modern culture is…
-
“Describe Yourself Like a Male Author Would”
Read more: “Describe Yourself Like a Male Author Would”On an unnamed part of the internet, young adult author Gwen C. Katz found a delightfully deluded male author claiming that his facility with writing natural women characters constituted an unassailable rebuke to the idea that we need diverse authors…
-
New Documents
Read more: New DocumentsThis modestly scaled exhibition, featuring work by three (then) young and relatively unknown photographers named Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, and Garry Winogrand, had a lasting influence on modern photography. As curator John Szarkowski explained in his introduction to the exhibition,…
-
Mada Underground
Read more: Mada UndergroundAs local rapper Naty says, a group of young people are intent on making their mark in Madagascar’s cultural history. From gifted slam poet Caylah to inventive visual artist Temandrota and a crew of entrepreneurial skateboarders, a generation of young…
-
A Legal Guide Helps Artists Make and Protect Protest Art
Read more: A Legal Guide Helps Artists Make and Protect Protest ArtHarvard University’s Cyberlaw Clinic and metaLAB have created a free guide for making protest art while navigating intellectual property law. “Because political art speaks directly to issues that people care deeply about (in that instance, having an African-American First Family),…
-
SIMA RAMA | BURDEN OF PEACE
Read more: SIMA RAMA | BURDEN OF PEACEOne film to change the world. Curated every month. BURDEN OF PEACE follows Guatemala’s first female Attorney General Claudia Paz y Paz in her fight against impunity. Throughout April 2018 a global audience came together to watch BURDEN OF PEACE,…
-
“1984” in Bangkok Streets
Read more: “1984” in Bangkok StreetsThere are no whistles, no loud speakers, and no placards held up high in this quiet act of subversion. Pimsiri Petchnamrob stands silently in a mass of sharply dressed Bangkok commuters, her hands clutched around a copy of George Orwell’s…