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Poetry of the street and poetry of transparency
Read more: Poetry of the street and poetry of transparency“At the end of 1969, Alain Arias-Misson invited us to join him in a Public Poem project, which he called “A MADRID” (in Madrid, Spain) . If that was not the first “Public Poem” in history, since Alain had experimented…
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Indigenous Cooking
Read more: Indigenous Cooking“a dinner cooked by six indigenous chefs, members of tribes from around North America, who are meeting together for the first time this week to launch a new indigenous activist group, called the I-Collective. Thursday’s dinner will be at Dimes,…
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Ai Weiwei launches controversial public art project focused on immigration
Read more: Ai Weiwei launches controversial public art project focused on immigrationThe artist has assembled a set of 300 installations around New York City, based around the concept of fences and borders, to showcase the ‘narrow-minded’ attempts used to ‘create some kind of hatred between people’ In 1937, French artist André…
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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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All Eyes on ‘Sparrow’: Documenting the Dangers of Activism in China
Read more: All Eyes on ‘Sparrow’: Documenting the Dangers of Activism in ChinaNanfu Wang feels safe in New York. Surveillance, that essential preoccupation of the documentarian in America, is a chokehold from which she has been temporarily released. From her Brooklyn apartment, the Chinese filmmaker prepares for the release of her debut…
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Dismaland
Read more: Dismaland“He describes it as a “family theme park unsuitable for small children” – and with the Grim Reaper whooping it up on the dodgems and Cinderella horribly mangled in a pumpkin carriage crash, it is easy to see why. Banksy’s…
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The Role of Graphic Novels in Social Activism
Read more: The Role of Graphic Novels in Social ActivismBy Jessie Blaeser Graphic novels occupy a strange space. They exist somewhere in between the literary world and a childlike obsession with images, as they provide an illustration of the action right on the page so that the mind is…
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A Night Of Philosophy And Ideas
Read more: A Night Of Philosophy And Ideas“A Night of Philosophy and Ideas is a thinker’s lollapalooza. The free, 12-hour weekend lyceum at the Brooklyn Public Library includes spirited debate, live music, theater, performance art pieces, and film screenings. At any given hour, five or six different…
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Red Paint Splashed on Roosevelt Statue after second “Anti-Columbus Day Tour”
Read more: Red Paint Splashed on Roosevelt Statue after second “Anti-Columbus Day Tour”Just weeks after activists staged an alternative tour of the American Museum of Natural History to call for its removal, among other things, the equestrian statue of Teddy Roosevelt was vandalized early Thursday morning. The base of the statue, which…