Projects tagged
Politics & Government
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‘Wolf Warrior artist’ strives to use new art to spread truth and inspire patriotism
Read more: ‘Wolf Warrior artist’ strives to use new art to spread truth and inspire patriotismWith delicate composition, striking details and strong emotion, five editorial posters drawn by Wuheqilin have attracted some half million followers to his account on Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter-like social media platform. His political views expressed in his art have led…
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Weaponizing pink glitter
Read more: Weaponizing pink glitterOn August 16, 2019 thousands of women marched in various cities across Mexico. One particular case may have triggered them, but these marches were an answer to the systematic violence against women and girls in our country. On August 6,…
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Paint, Poems and Protest Anthems: Myanmar’s Coup Inspires the Art of Defiance
Read more: Paint, Poems and Protest Anthems: Myanmar’s Coup Inspires the Art of DefianceMost nights since a coup returned Myanmar to military rule on Feb. 1, a spectral symbol of protest has glowed on a mildewed side of a building. Where the next illumination will appear in Yangon, the country’s biggest city, is…
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TikTok’s teen communists are reclaiming the hammer and sickle
Read more: TikTok’s teen communists are reclaiming the hammer and sickle20-year-old Ilyssa, from New York, sees communism as the only viable alternative, one that will improve the societal issues we currently face. “From a young age, I was very aware of the stark class differences that existed,” she says. “I…
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The masked artist protesters in a polluted city of China
Read more: The masked artist protesters in a polluted city of ChinaIn the south-western city of Chengdu, by all accounts a city on the edge coping with heavy pollution but also with authorities scrambling to put a lid on simmering discontent. That night police detained a number of artists who managed…
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Las Carpetas
Read more: Las Carpetas“Las Carpetas looks at the bureaucratic residue of a 40-year-long secret surveillance program that aimed to destroy the Puerto Rican Independence Movement. Through still-lives, archival appropriation, and investigation, Christopher Gregory-Rivera provides a counter-history to the way many understand this period…
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Stella Nyanzi’s Birthday Poem “Yoweri, they say it was your birthday yesterday.”
Read more: Stella Nyanzi’s Birthday Poem “Yoweri, they say it was your birthday yesterday.”Dr. Stella Nyanzi, a Ugandan medical anthropologist, activist, and writer, was convicted after writing and posting a poem online, in which she criticized Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and his mother. In November 2018, Ugandan authorities charged Dr. Nyanzi with “cyber…
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Teeter-Totter Wall
Read more: Teeter-Totter WallAn installation by architecture studio Rael San Fratello, which connected children in the US and Mexico via a trio of seesaws slotted into the countries’ border wall, has been crowned the Design of the Year. Dubbed the Teeter-Totter Wall, the…
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How Snowden Canceled the 4th of July Diplomatic Reception in Bolivia
Read more: How Snowden Canceled the 4th of July Diplomatic Reception in BoliviaOn July 2nd, 2013, after attending the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) conference, Bolivian President Evo Morales departed Russia from Vnukovo Airport in Moscow aboard his presidential plane. However, a “leak” suggested that Edward Snowden was aboard, which led Spain,…
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This Subway Is Too Small
Read more: This Subway Is Too SmallIn 2017, the political party Ahora Buenos Aires (Now Buenos Aires) was running in the legislative election for the first time. It is not easy being a small left-wing party in the City of Buenos Aires, therefore imagination is an…