Projects tagged
Immigration
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Fenced-In Nativity Scene
Read more: Fenced-In Nativity SceneThe nativity scene at Fellowship Congregational Church in Tulsa, Okla., looks a little different this year: There is a chain-link fence surrounding Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus. The display has been up since the beginning of December, but it…
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“Until We Are All Free” Art Kit
Read more: “Until We Are All Free” Art KitArt has the power to move our imaginations and bodies, transforming the emotional and physical spaces we share. It has the power to build and transform social relations and to bring about equity and justice. In collaboration with Mobilize the…
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refuge for refugees
Read more: refuge for refugeesTwo design students were awarded the Futurapolis prize last Wednesday for their project to adapt the Furan (underground river) , a response to the migration crisis. Winners of the Futurapolis prize, which aims to encourage students to work on sustainable…
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14,000 Refugee Life Jackets
Read more: 14,000 Refugee Life JacketsChinese artist Ai Weiwei covered a Berlin landmark with thousands of refugee life jackets for his latest installation. The striking display was the activist’s attempt to highlight the scale of migrants taking to the seas every day. Ai’s team began…
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Arca
Read more: ArcaAlejandro Ghersi, the Venezuelan-born artist behind Arca, is part of a relatively recent and growing diaspora, and at a time when the political situation back home is at a fever pitch, it feels difficult not to see the ways this…
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Borders
Read more: BordersThe video for “Borders,” a song off MIA’s album Matahdatah, features images recalling all sorts of migrations from the developing world—there are people crossing deserts, fences, and bodies of water. Though much of M.I.A.’s work has been about women and…
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Mobile Worlds
Read more: Mobile WorldsWhen Europeans of the 18th and 19th centuries established their grandest museums, each building meant to unite the world’s cultural heritage under a single roof, they had no doubt as to who should explain it all: themselves. They took a…
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Latin Party at Racist Aaron Schlossberg’s UWS Apartment
Read more: Latin Party at Racist Aaron Schlossberg’s UWS ApartmentAction as a response to viral video of Attorney Aaron Schlossberg’s racist rant against Spanish speaking customers and employees at a midtown restaurant. The “Latin Party” included food, music, and dance celebrating Latina/o culture in the US. From FB event…
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Printing a Revolution: The Posters of Paris ’68
Read more: Printing a Revolution: The Posters of Paris ’68During the major strikes and student uprisings in France that year, the École des Beaux-Arts turned itself into a workshop for revolutionary messages. PARIS — Fifty years ago, almost to the day, students here began to strike over the rigidity…
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Action Day Against Racism and Xenophobia in Spain – No Hate Speech
Read more: Action Day Against Racism and Xenophobia in Spain – No Hate SpeechThe No Hate Speech campaign has come to its fourth anniversary this week, because it was on the 18th of March 2013 when the Spanish Institute for Youth IMG_9707(INJUVE) officially launched the campaign in Spain, to commemorate the 21st of…