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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…
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“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…
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Pop-Up Studio: Kids’ Campaign to Correct History
Read more: Pop-Up Studio: Kids’ Campaign to Correct HistoryJoin other families in reimagining sports team mascots and logos that misrepresent Native American communities. Design a campaign for alternative names with the help of artists Sam Durant and Elisa Harkins, taking inspiration from the exhibition Jimmie Durham: At the…
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Die-In at Chicago City Hall for #NoCopAcademy
Read more: Die-In at Chicago City Hall for #NoCopAcademyA group of Chicago youth staged a “die-in’ at City Hall to demand that the city defund police and fund marginalized communities instead. The youth, all members of #NoCopAcademy, also announced that the organization is suing Mayor Rahm Emanuel for…
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PORTRAIT OF A GENERATION
Read more: PORTRAIT OF A GENERATIONAfter a first illegal exhibition on the walls of the Cité des Bosquets, JR settles in the heart of this neighborhood and the neighboring projects of La Forestière, in Clichy-sous-Bois, where the 2005 riots started in the French suburbs. The…
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ASCO Collective
Read more: ASCO CollectiveBeginning in the early 1970s, the Los Angeles-based multi-media arts collective Asco (from the Spanish word for nausea) created performances, street theater and conceptual art that satirized the emerging styles of Chicano art and pushed the boundaries of what it…
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Queer vernaculars and visual narratives IRANTI
Read more: Queer vernaculars and visual narratives IRANTIONGOING ORGANIZATION: CALLED: Iranti [pronounced írantì] is the Yoruba word for ‘memory’. Largely found in South West Nigeria and parts of Benin Republic, the Yoruba people consider memory a prized form of intelligence which determines how often one remembers what…
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The Sacred Art of Ori
Read more: The Sacred Art of OriThe story of an artist. Laolu Senbanjo grew up surrounded by the culture and mythology of the Yoruba, an ethnic group from the southwest of Nigeria, but he never imagined how it would influence the artist he is today. After…
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NYC Artist Is Using Her Unapologetically Brown Identity to Empower Others
Read more: NYC Artist Is Using Her Unapologetically Brown Identity to Empower OthersYou’ll find Johanna Toruno on the streets of NYC plastering pictures of her flower-filtered poetry, Kendrick Lamar, and Selena on blank walls, street lights and buildings. When I came across The Unapologetically Brown Series on Instagram I was intrigued not…
