Projects tagged
Multi-issue
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Old People’s Home
Read more: Old People’s HomeThese thirteen life-like sculptures resemble familiar politicians, admirals, generals, bishops, and dictators. Portrayed as frail seniors, they sit dozing off and drooling in electric wheelchairs. They roll on a slow collision course, crashing into each other like bumper cars. The…
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This Historic Marian Anderson Performance Made Her an Icon of the Civil Rights Movement
Read more: This Historic Marian Anderson Performance Made Her an Icon of the Civil Rights MovementMarian Anderson, the legendary African American contralto, sang at the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday in 1939 after she was refused a performance at Washington’s Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution because she was black. Over 75,000…
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How Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Art Challenges Status Quo
Read more: How Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Art Challenges Status QuoJean-Michel Basquiat was an American artist who rose to fame in the 1980s. He is known for his graffiti-inspired paintings that often engage with issues surrounding racism and inequality. Basquiat’s work challenged the status quo and incited a powerful social…
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what is missing?
Read more: what is missing?“What Is Missing?” is a multi-sited memorial created by Maya Lin to raise awareness through science-based artworks about the present sixth mass extinction of species, connect this loss of species to habitat degradation and loss, and emphasize that by protecting…
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Abortion Access & Gender-Based Violence in Haiti
Read more: Abortion Access & Gender-Based Violence in HaitiHaiti is a conservative society where Roman Catholicism shapes many of its social norms. Patriarchal norms, says Haitian feminist Pascale Solages, co-founder and general coordinator of feminist organization Nègès Mawon, have informed its strict views on abortion. In Haiti, women…
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Hundreds of Pro-Palestine Protestors Stage Events at MoMA and Brooklyn Museum
Read more: Hundreds of Pro-Palestine Protestors Stage Events at MoMA and Brooklyn MuseumAs the conflict between Israel and Hamas continues, hundreds of people gathered inside the Museum of Modern Art and outside of the Brooklyn Museum on Saturday for protests. Images and videos posted on Instagram show several banners unfurled inside MoMA’s…
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Activists Pour Porridge and Spray Soup on Queen Victoria Sculptures in Glasgow to Protest Cost of Living
Read more: Activists Pour Porridge and Spray Soup on Queen Victoria Sculptures in Glasgow to Protest Cost of LivingActivists poured porridge and jam on a marble bust of Queen Victoria and sprayed fire extinguishers filled with soup onto a large bronze statue of the monarch during two recent protests in Glasgow, Scotland. The group, called This Is Rigged,…
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Transforming Memory into Action: The Climate Crisis Through Vintage Visions
Read more: Transforming Memory into Action: The Climate Crisis Through Vintage VisionsDavid Opdyke’s wry, panoramic visions of an America perceptibly in the grips of climate crisis were born of an artistic crisis—of “needing to come up an idea by digging somewhere other than my own brain.” Having drawn on his imagination…
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How Song Dong’s “Waste Not” Elicited Much Sympathy
Read more: How Song Dong’s “Waste Not” Elicited Much SympathySong Dong’s Waste Not consisted of a single installation comprising over 10,000 commonplace, domestic items of daily life that had been used and amassed by the artist’s mother (Zhao Xiangyuan) over fifty years. The shabby and sometimes thread bare items…
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STICK IT TO ‘EM!
Read more: STICK IT TO ‘EM!#stickit2em is an all-inclusive, anti-capitalist, & pro-planet justice movement, using the clever medium of stickers! “America is segregated and so is pollution. Race and class still matter and map closely with pollution, unequal protection, and vulnerability. Today, zip code is…