Projects tagged
Arts & Culture
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GRAFFITI ARTISTS GIVEN MASSIVE EMPTY WAREHOUSE AND UNLIMITED PAINT
Read more: GRAFFITI ARTISTS GIVEN MASSIVE EMPTY WAREHOUSE AND UNLIMITED PAINTThese graffiti artists were given carte blanche over an entire warehouse to do with what they wanted. The result? Everything from the soundtrack from the videography, editing and the painting is just absolute brilliance. External sources: http://www.trippapparel.com/2013/15056 http://unlooker.com/graffiti-artists-given-massive-empty-wharehouse-unlimited-pa…
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A street art project paints a brighter future for Syrian refugee camps
Read more: A street art project paints a brighter future for Syrian refugee campsFollowing on from Ruben Shanchez’s mural on the Syrain boader, we head back to the same subject with Awareness & Prevention Through Art (AptART) is a not-for-profit organisation that aims to give vulnerable children an artistic experience with an opportunity…
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Artists Activists
Read more: Artists ActivistsArtistsActivists is a youth empowerment and advocacy organization started in 2011 by graduate students at Yale University. Through the various ArtistsActivists programs, artists and designers share their skills with young people around the world. Since more people are joining our…
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Dr. Cruel and the Afro- Icelandic Liberation Front
Read more: Dr. Cruel and the Afro- Icelandic Liberation FrontBy 2010, the Nigerian film industry, also referred to as “Nollywood,” had become the second-largest film industry in the world. Today, the accessibility of digital video technology continues to enable prolific amateur filmmakers to produce wildly popular low-budget and direct-to-DVD…
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The Dreamland Artist Club
Read more: The Dreamland Artist ClubThe Dreamland Artist Club project was named after one of the famous amusement parks in Coney Island. The project consisted of more than 25 artists coming together to repaint rides and make custom signs, murals and scenic backdrops for the…
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The Crossroads Project
Read more: The Crossroads Project“The mandate for great and difficult achievement is manifest in the message coming from the science of sustainability and climate change. Yet information alone will not take us where we need to go; science needs the arts to compel a…
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Why the Music of Protest Is Still Worth Defending
Read more: Why the Music of Protest Is Still Worth DefendingIt’s become fashionable to say that political music is either dead or irrelevant. “Because of the ’60s, part and parcel of being a `serious music fan’ is lamenting that music isn’t political enough,” wrote communications scholar Michael Barthel in Salon…
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Documentary on art and activism in the streets of Buenos Aires
Read more: Documentary on art and activism in the streets of Buenos Aires‘White Walls Say Nothing’ is the first feature-length film of its kind to explore art and activism in the streets of Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires is a complex, chaotic city. It has European style and a Latin American heart. It…
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Center Portion
Read more: Center PortionSpace to Play by Rick Kogan Performance spaces come in all shapes and sizes and purposes, from the shabby basement blues bar to, well, the Auditorium Theater. This is a city that, in spite of shortsighted politicians and greedy developers,…
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Art, From Conception to Birth in Qatar
Read more: Art, From Conception to Birth in QatarFor weeks, 14 giant balloons had been mysteriously parked in front of the Sidra Medical and Research Center, a hulking steel, glass and white ceramic building devoted to women’s and children’s health that is to open on the outskirts of…