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Response to James Cohan Gallery (October 19th, 2017)

Date:
Oct 19 2017

October 19, 2017 The Chinatown Art Brigade is not surprised that James Cohan gallery’s immediate reaction to Sunday’s organized action would be to cry censorship, and also simultaneously claim that our protest was exactly what their artist intended. In an…

FILIPINO HIP-HOP ACTIVISTS TAKE A STAND IN OAKLAND/TAKE BACK OUR EDUCATION

Practitioner:
various activists

Date:
Oct 19 2017

There is a large Filipino community in the Bay Area that organizes and fights for better workers’ rights and educating youth of color. There are groups within this community that address these issues through hip-hop. Kiwi Illafonte, 40, is a…

Pop-Up Studio: Kids’ Campaign to Correct History

Practitioner:
Sam Durant and Elisa Harkins

Date:
Oct 19 2017

Join other families in reimagining sports team mascots and logos that misrepresent Native American communities. Design a campaign for alternative names with the help of artists Sam Durant and Elisa Harkins, taking inspiration from the exhibition Jimmie Durham: At the…

LOGIC’S ‘1-800-273-8255’ OFFERS AN HONEST TAKE ON SUICIDE & AMERICAN YOUTH

Practitioner:
Logic

Date:
Oct 19 2017

Logic, a rapper known to incorporate meaningful messages with his music, recently released his newest track, “1-800-273-8255.” Covering topics of depression and suicide, the song and its subsequent music video uses the phone number of a national suicide hotline as…

Thousands rally in Paris to protest slaying of Holocaust survivor

Practitioner:
public

Date:
Oct 19 2017

Thousands of people marched through Paris on Wednesday evening to protest the killing of a Holocaust survivor in her home over the weekend, in what investigators are treating as an anti-Semitic crime. Mireille Knoll, 85, was stabbed 11 times and…

PORTRAIT OF A GENERATION

Practitioner:
JR

Date:
Oct 19 2017

After a first illegal exhibition on the walls of the Cité des Bosquets, JR settles in the heart of this neighborhood and the neighboring projects of La Forestière, in Clichy-sous-Bois, where the 2005 riots started in the French suburbs. The…

The Black Joy Project

Practitioner:
Kleaver Cruz

Date:
Oct 19 2017

Black Lives Matter has pushed the national conversation on race—but the trauma and pain behind the fight against systemic racism can weigh heavily on black organizers and the communities they serve. This was the case for Kleaver Cruz, a 27-year-old…

ASCO Collective

Practitioner:
ASCO Collective

Date:
Oct 19 2017

Beginning in the early 1970s, the Los Angeles-based multi-media arts collective Asco (from the Spanish word for nausea) created performances, street theater and conceptual art that satirized the emerging styles of Chicano art and pushed the boundaries of what it…

Sixth Annual NYC Feminist Zinefest

Practitioner:
Barnard

Date:
Oct 19 2017

“The Feminist Zine Fest showcases the work of artists and zine makers of all genders who identify on the feminist spectrum, and whose politics are reflected in their work. For the second consecutive year, Barnard proudly hosts the zine fest,…

The Sacred Art of Ori

Practitioner:
Laolu Senbanjo

Date:
Oct 19 2017

The story of an artist. Laolu Senbanjo grew up surrounded by the culture and mythology of the Yoruba, an ethnic group from the southwest of Nigeria, but he never imagined how it would influence the artist he is today. After…