Projects tagged
Civil Liberties
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In Search of Magic – A Proposal for a New Constitution for The Republic of Iceland.
Read more: In Search of Magic – A Proposal for a New Constitution for The Republic of Iceland.The duo Libia Castro (b. 1970) & Ólafur Ólafsson (b. 1973) are the recipients of the Art Prize 2021 for their collective performance with the Magic Team In Search of Magic – A Proposal for a New Constitution for The…
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Kissing Doesn’t Kill and other projects
Read more: Kissing Doesn’t Kill and other projectsGran Fury was an AIDS activist artist collective from New York City consisting of 11 members, all artists – but action, not art, was the aim of the collective. Gran Fury member Loring McAlpin described the collective’s mass-market ambition to…
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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…
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Iran’s Shaming of Young Dancer Draws Backlash
Read more: Iran’s Shaming of Young Dancer Draws Backlash“But Ms. Hojabri lives in Iran, where women are not allowed to dance, at least not in public. The 19-year-old was quietly arrested in May and her page was taken down, leaving her 600,000 followers wondering where she had gone.…
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Flower Power
Read more: Flower PowerFlower power was a slogan used during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a symbol of passive resistance and nonviolence. It is rooted in the opposition movement to the Vietnam War. The expression was coined by the American Beat…
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Between the World and Me
Read more: Between the World and MeBetween the World and Me by Richard Wright And one morning while in the woods I stumbled suddenly upon the thing, Stumbled upon it in a grassy clearing guarded by scaly oaks and elms And the sooty details of the…
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My World Is In Your Blindspot
Read more: My World Is In Your BlindspotThis is a series of paintings reflecting the struggle and sacrifices made by the Tibetan people for independence. The author is Tenzing Rigdol, who is a Tibetan and influenced a lot by the Dalai Lama and traditional Tibetan culture. The…
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Gay men take over the Proud Boys Twitter hashtag
Read more: Gay men take over the Proud Boys Twitter hashtagThe Proud Boys hashtag, which members of the far-right group have been using, was trending Sunday after gay men on Twitter hijacked it and flooded the feed with photos of their loved ones and families and with memes. The Proud…
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In Burma, dogs ridicule the regime
Read more: In Burma, dogs ridicule the regimeDogs featured in one ruse to ridicule the regime—pictures of dictator Than Shwe were hung around the necks of the stray dogs that roam the streets of Rangoon. The pictures, which rapidly found their way onto the Internet, are the…
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Freedom riders
Read more: Freedom ridersThe first legislative victory of the Civil Rights era was obtained by hundreds of people going where they weren’t invited. In 1961, Black and white Freedom Riders, well trained by SNCC in nonviolent action, rode Greyhound buses from Washington DC…