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How ‘Animal Farm’ Gave Hope to Stalin’s Refugees
Read more: How ‘Animal Farm’ Gave Hope to Stalin’s RefugeesReading the introduction to Animal Farm by Christopher Hitchens a few years ago, I was stunned to learn that George Orwell, then a struggling writer in London, worked by letter with a group of refugees to publish the novel in…
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Glam Up the Midterms
Read more: Glam Up the MidtermsYou think midterm elections are boring? Not this year. Funny Or Die and Billy Eichner are going to Glam Up The Midterms! Only 12% of young people voted during the last midterm election. From the same team that brought you…
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Stop – short film on stop and frisk
Read more: Stop – short film on stop and friskhttps://vimeo.com/114980972 “Probably one of the most important and timely shorts for America this year. Reinaldo Marcus Green’s film addresses the upsetting aspects of New York City’s stop-and-frisk policies with sensitivity and insight.” -Jeff Bowers, VICE (http://bit.ly/1mU7HHQ) “The film packs a…
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Drake Donates $1 Million Budget for Music Video God’s Plan to Schools in Impoverished Areas
Read more: Drake Donates $1 Million Budget for Music Video God’s Plan to Schools in Impoverished AreasDrake has released an emotional video for “God’s Plan” in which he donates the music video budget to people in need. Shot in Miami and directed by Toronto’s Karena Evans and Jordan Oram, the video features a bunch of generous,…
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Hundreds of ‘honey bears’ posted all over SoMa in street art protest
Read more: Hundreds of ‘honey bears’ posted all over SoMa in street art protestLocal artist fnnch wants San Francisco to decriminalize certain types of art. You’re not seeing things: A whopping 450 “honey bears”—variations on the immediately recognizable and widely imitated bear-shaped honey bottles sold in seemingly every store in America–appeared all over…
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Artists mark Trump’s inauguration anniversary with day of protest art
Read more: Artists mark Trump’s inauguration anniversary with day of protest artThis weekend marks the one-year anniversary of Donald Trump’s inauguration. It also marks the one-year anniversary of the Women’s March his election inspired, the largest single-day protest in the nation’s history. To memorialize the occasion, artists across the country are…
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FOKAL
Read more: FOKALARTS/CULTURE FOKAL is the hub in Haiti where locals and international visitors from all walks of life — artists, writers, citizens, activists– come together to discuss the most pressing nation- and community-building issues, enjoy cutting edge artistic expressions, and share…
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Speech/Acts at ICA Philly
Read more: Speech/Acts at ICA PhillyIn “Speech/Acts,” a group exhibition organized by Meg Onli at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, Kameelah Janan Rasheed and Tiona Nekkia McClodden stood out as artists who take up voices, histories, and experiences that can help audiences move…
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The “Radical Edits” of Alexandra Bell
Read more: The “Radical Edits” of Alexandra BellThe artist Alexandra Bell‘s “Counternarratives” series highlights journalism’s tendency toward obfuscation and slant. In the spring of 2017, Alexandra Bell began wheat-pasting posters of edited and redacted pages of the New York Times on subway platforms and buildings around the…
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FESPACO
Read more: FESPACOFespaco is a meeting place put to good use to promote the development of black cinematography. From 1973, topics of discussion are introduced at each edition. The general theme of the sessions is chosen taking into account the concerns of…