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7 Days of Garbage
Read more: 7 Days of GarbageGregg Segal — a California-based artist who is known for using the medium of photography to explore culture with the “sensibility of a sociologist” — asked family, friends, neighbors and other acquaintances to save their trash and recyclables for a…
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Bicycle Advocacy Love Your Lane
Read more: Bicycle Advocacy Love Your LaneOn April 7, 1973, some 400 cyclists chanting “Bikes don’t pollute” rode through midtown Manhattan in a “Bike-In” that called for separate lanes to encourage bicycling and provide safety on city streets. Bicycle advocacy had been building since the 1960s,…
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North Korean Artist Hopes Reverse Propaganda Will Change Lives Back Home
Read more: North Korean Artist Hopes Reverse Propaganda Will Change Lives Back HomeSong Byeok is one of the most acclaimed Korean artists living today. He is from North Korea, where he was a propaganda artist for the North Korean government for two decades. After defecting in 2002, Byeok has turned his prolific…
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Photographer Stéphan Gladieu Documents the Congolese Street Children Turning Waste into Wonder
Read more: Photographer Stéphan Gladieu Documents the Congolese Street Children Turning Waste into Wonder“So dramatic, so strong, so visual,” artist Stéphan Gladieu said of his first encounter with the revival of an ancestral folk art movement in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Kinshasa is the capital of Congo but also one of the…
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All Power to All People
Read more: All Power to All PeopleLocated in Thomas Paine Plaza, across the street from City Hall, Hank Willis Thomas’s All Power to All People was a public art intervention that dealt with racial identity and representation in Philadelphia. The artist’s Afro pick sculpture, standing eight…
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Bread and Puppet Theatre: Insurrection Resurrection Service Circus
Read more: Bread and Puppet Theatre: Insurrection Resurrection Service CircusThe Insurrection-Resurrection Service Circus is this summer’s [started in 2020 and is ongoing] contribution to the iconic Bread and Puppet Circus tradition beloved by audiences worldwide for nearly 2 generations — a bright, raucous melee of short acts governed by…
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Zone à Défendre, or “zone to defend” (ZAD)
Read more: Zone à Défendre, or “zone to defend” (ZAD)The ZAD (zone à défendre, or “zone to defend”) in Western France is 4000 acres of wetland, farmland and forest that was originally intended to be built into an airport in 1965 but is now an autonomous territory occupied by…
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LGBTQ Marriage Matching in China
Read more: LGBTQ Marriage Matching in ChinaSixth Tone – “A group of women trying to raise awareness of LGBT rights by advertising their single, gay sons and daughters at Shanghai’s “marriage market” were forced to disperse after a heated confrontation with other parents and security personnel.The…
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Transforming Lives at Kainbach Nursing Home with WochenKlausur’s Initiative
Read more: Transforming Lives at Kainbach Nursing Home with WochenKlausur’s InitiativeOn the occasion of the European Cultural Capital Graz 2003, WochenKlausur developed a year-long program of activities for older people with severe mental disabilities. The object was to offer them opportunities for a change of their daily routine inside the…
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How Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Art Challenges Status Quo
Read more: How Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Art Challenges Status QuoJean-Michel Basquiat was an American artist who rose to fame in the 1980s. He is known for his graffiti-inspired paintings that often engage with issues surrounding racism and inequality. Basquiat’s work challenged the status quo and incited a powerful social…