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Kurdish Artist Zehra Doğan Has Been Freed in Turkey After 3 Years for Illustrating Turkey’s Violence
Read more: Kurdish Artist Zehra Doğan Has Been Freed in Turkey After 3 Years for Illustrating Turkey’s ViolenceThe Kurdish journalist and artist Zehra Doğan was freed yesterday after nearly three years in prison, Hyperallergic reports. Doğan first caught the attention of the Turkish authorities back in 2017 with a watercolor that depicted a Kurdish district after Turkish…
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Voices of Freedom: The Impact and Legacy of Tania Bruguera’s #YoTambienExijo
Read more: Voices of Freedom: The Impact and Legacy of Tania Bruguera’s #YoTambienExijoThe beginnings of the #YoTambienExijo movement were born on 17 December 2014, when President Obama announcement a landmark warming of the 53-year chill between the United States and Cuba. “When I first heard about the Cuba-US reconciliation it had a…
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NYPD to crack down on ‘sloppy’ cops with ban on shorts, white turtlenecks, cargo pants
Read more: NYPD to crack down on ‘sloppy’ cops with ban on shorts, white turtlenecks, cargo pantsThey’re real fashion police: Fed up with sloppy cops, the NYPD has moved to update its dress code, banning shorts on transit beats and white turtlenecks while on patrol. The department’s updated style guide, set to take effect next month,…
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Citizen: An American Lyric
Read more: Citizen: An American LyricIn Citizen, Claudia Rankine recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seemingly slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the…
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Htein Lin: A Show of Hands
Read more: Htein Lin: A Show of HandsFrom 1998 to 2004, pro-democracy activist Htein Lin was jailed for challenging the military dictatorship in his home country of Myanmar (formerly Burma) in Southeast Asia. Prior to his imprisonment, Lin acted in films and with a theater troupe. While…
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Living and Killing in Modern China: “A Touch of Sin”
Read more: Living and Killing in Modern China: “A Touch of Sin”“May you live in interesting times” is the familiar Chinese saying, usually spat out as a curse. You can see why in “A Touch of Sin,” a film by renowned director Jia Zhang-ke. That kind of time is now, in…
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A tribute to the Black Panther Party by Henry Taylor
Read more: A tribute to the Black Panther Party by Henry TaylorHenry Taylor (born 1958) is an American artist and painter who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He is best known for his experimental figurative paintings and exploration of contemporary and relevant historical social issues. Taylor rewrites art history,…
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Flower People
Read more: Flower People“As a Black woman, I can grow absolutely anywhere,” Aiyanna explains. “I can adapt to any storm, any weather, any changes. In the Black community, that’s something that we’re really good at.” So when Aiyanna, 25, was asked to contribute…
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Defacement (The Death of Michael Stewart)
Read more: Defacement (The Death of Michael Stewart)“It could have been me,” Jean-Michel Basquiat would say at the mere mention of the untimely death of Michael Stewart. Stewart, a 25-year-old artist, was allegedly drawing on the walls of the subway on 15 September 1983 when he was…
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Philando Castile: remembering his life through the power of art
Read more: Philando Castile: remembering his life through the power of artIt all started a few months ago, when the Minneapolis Institute of Art got a phone call from Valerie Castile. Castile is the mother of Philando Castile, the 32-year-old black man who was shot and killed by a police officer…