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How Keith Haring used art for good
Read more: How Keith Haring used art for goodIt’s the radiant baby, the barking dog and the dancing man; the badges and the t-shirts; the unmissable mural spelling out CRACK IS WACK. Keith Haring’s career was short but spectacular, and he leaves behind a lasting legacy. From his…
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Bus Regulation: The Musical – The Trilogy
Read more: Bus Regulation: The Musical – The TrilogyBus Regulation: The Musical (2019 – 2023) is a Trilogy of roller-skating Musicals inspired by Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Starlight Express’ performed in three of the UK’s biggest post-industrial city-regions – Greater Manchester, Strathclyde and Merseyside – in collaboration with local…
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“I Still Believe in Our City” Asian Americans Standing Out for Themselves
Read more: “I Still Believe in Our City” Asian Americans Standing Out for ThemselvesAsian Americans standing up for themselves, the Black Lives Matter movement, and their home: New York City In 2020, as COVID-19 flared through New York City and NYC hospitals saw a spike of nearly 200,000 patients, Asian and Pacific Islanders…
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Rainbow Makeover: Swedish Response to Russian anti-LGBTQ+ Discrimination.
Read more: Rainbow Makeover: Swedish Response to Russian anti-LGBTQ+ Discrimination.Swedish lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights advocates offered their colorful stance on Russia’s controversial anti-gay legislation over the weekend. As The Local is reporting, activists gave a pedestrian crossing outside of the Russian embassy in Stockholm a rainbow…
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La Fiera en Sevilla
Read more: La Fiera en SevillaDuring the economic crisis of 2008, bankers in Spain took advantage of the economically disadvantaged, and the artwork La Fiera en Sevilla, or the Wild Animal in Sevilla in English, brings attention to this money-centric act from the bankers. La…
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Ghana Thinktank. Developing the first world.
Read more: Ghana Thinktank. Developing the first world.Ghana ThinkTank is an international collective that “develops the first world” by flipping traditional power dynamics, asking the “third world” to intervene into the lives of the people living in the so-called “developed” world. We collect problems from communities throughout…
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‘Memorial’
Read more: ‘Memorial’Cheril Linett is a female artist from Chile, with a background in performance art and stage performance, who primarily focuses her artwork on feminist issues in Chile, especially ones involving violence, murder, hate crime and different kinds of oppression and…
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‘Memorial’
Read more: ‘Memorial’Cheril Linett is a female artist from Chile, with a background in performance art and stage performance, who primarily focuses her artwork on feminist issues in Chile, especially ones involving violence, murder, hate crime and different kinds of oppression and…
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Kinshasa Costumes
Read more: Kinshasa CostumesThe collective Ndaku Ya La Vie Est Belle, a group of Kinshasa street performers turn their bodies into living sculptures, and use them to political ends. Among the artists is Jared, who regularly takes to the streets dressed as Robot…
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Cob Houses, Kitchens, Showers for Homeless People
Read more: Cob Houses, Kitchens, Showers for Homeless PeopleMembers of three organizations – Artists Building Communities, Essential Food and Medicine, and Living Earth Structures – have built a kitchen, clinic, free store, stage, toilet, oven, and shower with and for a homeless community near Wood Street in West…