Politics & Government – Page 18 – Actipedia

“Untitled” (Portrait of Ross in L.A.)

Date:
Jan 24 1991

Felix Gonzalez-Torres produced meaningful and restrained sculptural forms out of common materials. “Untitled” (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) consists of an ideal weight of 175 pounds of shiny, commercially distributed candy. The work’s physical form and scale change with each…

Demonstealer Fights For a Better India Through Death Metal

Practitioner:
Demonstealer

Date:
Jan 24 1991

The Propaganda Machine is a battle cry delivered in the language of extreme metal. On Sahil Makhija’s fourth solo album as Demonstealer, he takes aim at the right-wing politicians, racist nationalists, disinformation artists, and religious extremists who manipulate and exploit…

The Great Migration Series

Practitioner:
Jacob Lawrence

Date:
Jan 24 1991

National Public Radio (NPR): There’s no historical marker outside Jacob Lawrence’s childhood home in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood. But Khalil Gibran Muhammad, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, has an idea of what it might…

Tel Aviv Museum of Art to darken galleries in protest on Thursday

Practitioner:
Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Date:
Jan 24 1991

The Tel Aviv Museum of Art is joining the countrywide judicial overhaul protests planned for Thursday, March 23, and will darken the halls and galleries of the museum, closing exhibits to the public and canceling planned tours and lectures. The…

The Tragic Story Behind Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit”

Practitioner:
Billie Holiday

Date:
Jan 24 1991

In March 1939, a 23-year-old Billie Holiday walked up to the mic at West 4th’s Cafe Society in New York City to sing her final song of the night. Per her request, the waiters stopped serving and the room went…

Pan American Unity

Practitioner:
Diego Rivera

Date:
Jan 24 1991

The Stanford Daily: There is no word short of “spectacular” that better describes the experience of examining “Pan American Unity,” Diego Rivera’s 1940 mural, housed since 2021 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). The piece is the…

Israeli artists draw a red line to High Court in protest of judicial reform

Practitioner:
Israeli Artists

Date:
Jan 24 1991

The “Day of Disruption” kicked off earlier than planned early on Thursday morning when dozens of Israeli artists painted a red line on the road to Israel’s High Court of Justice in Jerusalem. Launching another day of marches, demonstrations, and…

The radical power of sewing: the artist turning textiles into activism

Practitioner:
Aram Han Sifuentes

Date:
Jan 24 1991

Sewing and textiles have always been a part of the artist Aram Han Sifuentes’ life. Her South Korean immigrant parents operated a dry cleaning business, and she mended her own clothing from a young age. But it wasn’t until she…

Long Live Freedom

Practitioner:
Nicky Nodjoumi

Date:
Jan 24 1991

Decades of institutional corruption, elitist exploitation, and social abuses have been sewn into the political fabric of Iran’s dictatorial Islamic republic and have moulded Kermanshah-born fine art painter Nicky Nodoumi’s satirical motifs. His sleight-of-hand and incisive visual commentaries often vilified…

Destruction of the National Front

Practitioner:
Eddie Chambers

Date:
Jan 24 1991

TATE: Destruction of the National Front by the artist Eddie Chambers is a collage on four panels depicting the deconstruction of an image of the Union flag shaped as a swastika. For the first panel in the sequence, the artist…