Projects tagged
Politics & Government
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Zanele Muholi: ‘I’m a visual activist’
Read more: Zanele Muholi: ‘I’m a visual activist’I am a visual activist. Most of what I have done over the years focuses on black LGBTQIA+ and gender-non-conforming individuals from South Africa and other neighbouring countries. It’s about making sure we exist in the visual archive. I call…
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Hundreds of ‘honey bears’ posted all over SoMa in street art protest
Read more: Hundreds of ‘honey bears’ posted all over SoMa in street art protestLocal artist fnnch wants San Francisco to decriminalize certain types of art. You’re not seeing things: A whopping 450 “honey bears”—variations on the immediately recognizable and widely imitated bear-shaped honey bottles sold in seemingly every store in America–appeared all over…
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Artists mark Trump’s inauguration anniversary with day of protest art
Read more: Artists mark Trump’s inauguration anniversary with day of protest artThis weekend marks the one-year anniversary of Donald Trump’s inauguration. It also marks the one-year anniversary of the Women’s March his election inspired, the largest single-day protest in the nation’s history. To memorialize the occasion, artists across the country are…
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Poetry of the street and poetry of transparency
Read more: Poetry of the street and poetry of transparency“At the end of 1969, Alain Arias-Misson invited us to join him in a Public Poem project, which he called “A MADRID” (in Madrid, Spain) . If that was not the first “Public Poem” in history, since Alain had experimented…
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Kendrick Lamar Opens the 2018 Grammys with a Powerful and Political Performance
Read more: Kendrick Lamar Opens the 2018 Grammys with a Powerful and Political PerformanceDAMN. Kendrick Lamar opened the 2018 GRAMMYs with a powerful and political performance of his hit, “XXX.’” The rapper featured an army of face-covered soldiers marching in the background of an American flag, that quickly turned into a “satire” taking…
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Umbrella Man – Occupy Central Hong Kong
Read more: Umbrella Man – Occupy Central Hong KongThe pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong have a new mascot: a roughly 12-foot-high figure of wood blocks holding a bright yellow umbrella in its outstretched right hand. The students call it Umbrella Man. Umbrellas emerged as a symbol of the…
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Gay Rights Activists in Beijing Protest for Their Russian Comrades
Read more: Gay Rights Activists in Beijing Protest for Their Russian ComradesA small group of gay rights activists gathered outside the Russian Embassy in Beijing on Valentine’s Day to protest Russia’s antigay laws. Behind a rainbow banner that read “To Russia with Love,” a dozen activists cheered as three couples puckered…
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Rockers Unite for Haiti Benefits
Read more: Rockers Unite for Haiti BenefitsJay-Z rapped alongside side Bono, the Edge and Rihanna; Coldplay’s Chris Martin moonlighted as Beyoncé’s piano player; Justin Timberlake covered Leonard Cohen — and those performances, from January 22nd’s multinetwork, $66 million-grossing telethon for Haitian earthquake victims, were just the…
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Citizen Four
Read more: Citizen Four“CITIZENFOUR is a real life thriller, unfolding by the minute, giving audiences unprecedented access to filmmaker Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald’s encounters with Edward Snowden in Hong Kong, as he hands over classified documents providing evidence of mass indiscriminate…
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The “Radical Edits” of Alexandra Bell
Read more: The “Radical Edits” of Alexandra BellThe artist Alexandra Bell‘s “Counternarratives” series highlights journalism’s tendency toward obfuscation and slant. In the spring of 2017, Alexandra Bell began wheat-pasting posters of edited and redacted pages of the New York Times on subway platforms and buildings around the…