Projects tagged
Politics & Government
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Fit For Work
Read more: Fit For WorkGraffiti art is particularly viewed as a powerful form of social protest, and the (illegal) act of defacing can be as important as the message itself. Artist Void One has been arrested on numerous occasions for his politically-charged interventions. “I…
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The Vivienne Foundation
Read more: The Vivienne FoundationThe Vivienne Foundation exists to honour, protect and continue the legacy of Vivienne’s creativity and activism. Since the start of her career in the 1970s, Vivienne was renowned not only for her fashion design, but also her activism. Vivienne always…
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Study of Perspective (& Stools)
Read more: Study of Perspective (& Stools)The son of an exiled political dissident, Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei’s work is inherently political. Since 1995 Ai Weiwei has been traveling the world, photographing himself flipping off iconic monuments of power in his Study of Perspective series.…
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“Is it Real? Yes It Is!”
Read more: “Is it Real? Yes It Is!”In recent years, a fashion for painting the human figure has preoccupied the art world, with an emphasis on race, gender and other urgent social issues. Yet another pressing topic in America has been curiously absent from art: abortion, which…
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The Baltic Way – the longest unbroken human chain in history
Read more: The Baltic Way – the longest unbroken human chain in historyAt 7:00 PM on 23 August 1989, approximately two million people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania joined hands, forming a human chain from Tallinn through Riga to Vilnius, spanning 675 kilometres, or 420 miles. It was a peaceful protest against…
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End Bad Breath
Read more: End Bad BreathWired Article: IN 1957 SEYMOUR Chwast published a book titled A Book of Battles. It was 24 pages of hand-colored linocut illustrations depicting infamous battles waged throughout history. Chwast, by then a partner at the famed graphic design outfit Push…
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The Georgian artists at the forefront of anti-government protests
Read more: The Georgian artists at the forefront of anti-government protestsThe Georgian government’s attempt in March to impose a repressive Russian-style “foreign agent” law has galvanised the cultural community in the country. Museum workers and artists have been at the forefront of dramatic protests during which police fired water cannons…
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Chile’s protest street art
Read more: Chile’s protest street art“The walls of the streets of downtown Santiago are covered with stickers, art, words and posters. The messages are varied and range from “Feminist power” to “All cops are bastards”. They have taken over the walls of Zona Cero (Ground…
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Books (Please)! In All Branches of Knowledge, 1924
Read more: Books (Please)! In All Branches of Knowledge, 1924Seattle Times: In 1921, just four years after the Bolshevik Revolution, American journalist Albert Rhys Williams wrote: “The visitor to Russia is struck by the multitude of posters — in factories and barracks, on walls and railway-cars, on telegraph poles…
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The Folded Map Project
Read more: The Folded Map ProjectThe Folded Map Project is a project by Tonika Lewis Johnson, a photographer and community activist from Chicago. The project aims to investigate and change the racial and economic segregation that affects the city and its residents. The project started…