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Cao Fei’s Whose Utopia?
Read more: Cao Fei’s Whose Utopia?Whose Utopia? is a color film which is 19 minutes 58 seconds long. It was originally commissioned by the Siemens Arts Program back in 2005. The projector-style video is based on the work and social lives of assembly line workers…
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Red Swing Project
Read more: Red Swing ProjectIn 2007, Andrew Danziger had an architecture class assignment at the University of Texas at Austin to propose an urban intervention in Austin. The goal was to think about public art in unexpected ways. One classmate dreamed up a blank…
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Bad Bunny’s ‘Debí Tirar Más Fotos’ is a form of activism
Read more: Bad Bunny’s ‘Debí Tirar Más Fotos’ is a form of activismBenito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, better known to the world as Bad Bunny, has once again proven that his artistry goes far beyond reggaeton and trap. On January 5, 2025 — the eve of Puerto Rico’s cherished Three Kings Day —…
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Bed Stuy Aquarium
Read more: Bed Stuy AquariumThe Bed-Stuy “aquarium” is back. The neighborhood’s beloved sidewalk fish pond was resurrected this week — in an act of defiance that comes just five days after the city cemented over the original and left the neighborhood’s goldfish to die.…
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Hiding in the City
Read more: Hiding in the CityAt the end of 2005, Liu Boln was living in Beijing and working as an artist’s assistant. Beijing’s art world at this time was thriving. On November 16, 2006 when Suo Jia Cun was forcibly demolished, Liu decided to use…
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Teeter-Totter Wall, 2019
Read more: Teeter-Totter Wall, 2019hot pink see-saws installed along the US-Mexico border where one person on each side can sit and see-saw with the other. installed at Sunland Park, nine miles northwest of El Paso, on the 18 feet slats border wall between Mexico…
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“Whose Chinatown?” Exhibition
Read more: “Whose Chinatown?” ExhibitionWhose Chinatown? Examining Chinatown Gazes in Art, Archives, and Collections, brings together an art history of Chinatowns and their communities by historical and contemporary Canadian artists such Emily Carr, Unity Bainbridge, Yucho Chow, Fred Herzog, Paul Wong, Mary Sui Yee…
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Art Everywhere
Read more: Art EverywhereCENTRO San Antonio’s Art Everywhere Project will celebrate its 5th anniversary in May. As of May 2024, the project had seen numerous artists from the city’s urbancore decorate areas of the city with elaborate murals reflecting the city’s history and…
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Funk Lessons
Read more: Funk LessonsAdrian Piper’s “Funk Lessons” (1982-84) was a series of performances and collaborative events in which the artist taught white participants about black funk music, its culture, and its history, aiming to deconstruct stereotypical ideas about Black culture. Adrian Piper began…
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China Folk House in West Virginia
Read more: China Folk House in West VirginiaThe China Folk House project grew out of the Sidwell Friends School China Fieldwork Semester, a program which had ran for five years (2014 – 2018) that took students to Yunnan Province, China, for an integrated semester of experiential learning…