Projects tagged
Environment
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Birthday Party For A Pothole
Read more: Birthday Party For A PotholeA group of young adults under the name of “Love Tijuana” (Amemos Tijuana) celebrated the one year “Birthday” of a pothole located at the Via Rapida (Tijuana’s Freeway) with balloons, banners, and even hats. The giant pothole that was covered…
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How do you get to Flushing Creek?
Read more: How do you get to Flushing Creek?Flushing Creek is so hidden by industrial sites and highways, it’s almost invisible to those passing through the Flushing neighborhood of Queens. “I lived in Flushing my whole life and didn’t know that I lived near waterways until I was…
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Water Bar
Read more: Water BarNortheast Minneapolis is going to have the first full-fledged water bar of its kind, an establishment where you can sit and drink a variety of local tap waters to your heart’s content. Their delightful motto: “Water is all we have.”…
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UNLESS
Read more: UNLESSUNLESS by Stephanie Cardon is a vibrant floor-to-ceiling installation that fills the main entryway of Boston’s landmark Prudential Center. Commissioned by Boston Properties and curated and produced by Now + There, UNLESS explores sustainability, climate justice, and how taking action…
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Crows That Pick Up Trash
Read more: Crows That Pick Up TrashOh, to be a crow. Maligned as scavengers that torment their dead brethren. Portrayed as aerial killers in the 1963 Alfred Hitchcock classic, “The Birds.” In France, though, the wily crow is getting a makeover. Puy du Fou, a historical…
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Support for birds in Skopje
Read more: Support for birds in SkopjeAnonymous urban artists set up art installations, large nest eggs, at several locations in Skopje, wanting to alarm the growing number of trees in the city. In the nest read a message “You cut all the trees, where do we…
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The Yes Men – Bhopal Hoax
Read more: The Yes Men – Bhopal Hoax“I am very, very happy to announce that for the first time, Dow is accepting full responsibility for the Bhopal catastrophe. We have a $12 billion plan to finally, at long last, fully compensate the victims, including the 120,000 who…
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BP protest at Tate Britain
Read more: BP protest at Tate BritainProtesters bathed an entrance to the Tate Britain in mock oil provoking anger from guests attending a party to mark 20 years of BP’s sponsorship of the flagship gallery. A dozen veiled artists, angered by the Tate’s continuing involvement with…
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Nongfu Spring Market
Read more: Nongfu Spring MarketThe 9,000 bottles of water on display at an art gallery in Beijing last month appeared identical to those of Nongfu Spring, one of China’s most popular spring water brands, with one jarring difference. Inside each bottle was brown, murky…
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Ottawa Eel Walk
Read more: Ottawa Eel Walk“Around 30 people gathered on Victoria Island Monday morning to advocate for the return of the endangered American Eel to the Ottawa River. The event mixed art with activism, with attendees carrying windsocks decorated to look like as eels as…