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How Art Gives Shape to Cultural Change

Date:
Jul 2 2009

Thelma Golden, curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem, talks through three recent shows that explore how art examines and redefines culture. The “post-black” artists she works with are using their art to provoke a new dialogue about race and…

A Legal Guide Helps Artists Make and Protect Protest Art

Practitioner:
Harvard University’s Cyberlaw Clinic and metaLAB

Date:
Jul 2 2009

Harvard University’s Cyberlaw Clinic and metaLAB have created a free guide for making protest art while navigating intellectual property law. “Because political art speaks directly to issues that people care deeply about (in that instance, having an African-American First Family),…

[Human Compliance Experiment] ‘The Push’: Netflix Special That Tests Human Compliance Is a Life-or-Death ‘Nathan for You’

Practitioner:
Derren Brown

Date:
Jul 2 2009

https://www.netflix.com/title/80220000 http://www.indiewire.com/2018/02/the-push-netflix-review-ending-derren-b… Article from IndieWire by Steve Greene The hour-long experiment from magician and UK TV mainstay Derren Brown asks a dangerous question with an unexpected twist. [Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for the Netflix special “Derren Brown: The…

Pop-Up Studio: Kids’ Campaign to Correct History

Practitioner:
Sam Durant and Elisa Harkins

Date:
Jul 2 2009

Join 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…

LOGIC’S ‘1-800-273-8255’ OFFERS AN HONEST TAKE ON SUICIDE & AMERICAN YOUTH

Practitioner:
Logic

Date:
Jul 2 2009

Logic, a rapper known to incorporate meaningful messages with his music, recently released his newest track, “1-800-273-8255.” Covering topics of depression and suicide, the song and its subsequent music video uses the phone number of a national suicide hotline as…

Sixth Annual NYC Feminist Zinefest

Practitioner:
Barnard

Date:
Jul 2 2009

“The Feminist Zine Fest showcases the work of artists and zine makers of all genders who identify on the feminist spectrum, and whose politics are reflected in their work. For the second consecutive year, Barnard proudly hosts the zine fest,…

Reporter’s viral eye roll causes trouble with Chinese censors

Practitioner:
Liang Xiangyi

Date:
Jul 2 2009

By Steven Jiang, CNN https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/14/asia/china-viral-eye-roll-intl/index.html (CNN)It was the eye roll that resonated with millions — and broke the internet in China. On the sidelines of the country’s annual parliament session, a Chinese journalist on Tuesday morning showed her contempt for…

LEGOVC

Practitioner:
iancooketal

Date:
Jul 2 2009

LEGOVC is a fictional, made up, 100% fake, plastic, ‘pantomime villain’ Vice Chancellor of a fake British University struggling as his utter managerial brilliance crumbles in the face of sustained strike action by his staff after their pension scheme is…

General Idea and the AIDS crises

Practitioner:
General Idea Collective

Date:
Jul 2 2009

The Canadian artist collective General Idea found its drive in the AIDS epidemic, becoming aesthetically and conceptually refined in the in the 1970s and ’80s, after long forays into absurdity and performances evocative of Dada and Fluxus. A retrospective presented…

Threads of Resistance

Practitioner:
Artist Circle Alliance

Date:
Jul 2 2009

A juried exhibition of fiber art created by the Artist Circle Alliance to protest the Trump administration’s actions and policies. This is a traveling exhibition to 13 venues across the U.S. All work in the exhibition, as well as the…