Projects tagged
Race & Ethnicity
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Activist busted after defacing anti-Islam ad in Times Sq. station
Read more: Activist busted after defacing anti-Islam ad in Times Sq. stationAn Egyptian-born activist was arrested yesterday for spray-painting subway billboards that call enemies of Israel “savages” — amid a wave of vandalism unleashed on the inflammatory ads, which have divided the city. Mona Eltahawy, a self-described “liberal Muslim,” strolled up…
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Russell Tribunal on Palestine
Read more: Russell Tribunal on Palestine“May this Tribunal prevent the crime of silence“… …declared Lord Bertrand Russell to define the spirit and the objective of the International War Crimes Tribunal constituted in 1966 to investigate crimes committed in Vietnam and judge them according to international…
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Ngapartji Ngapartji
Read more: Ngapartji NgapartjiFrom 2005-2010 the Ngapartji Ngapartji project was based out of Alice Springs, working with Pitjantjatjara communities throughout Central Australia. The project created an online Pitjantjatjara language site, two touring theatre works and a documentary Nothing Rhymes with Ngapartji; http://www.nothingrhymeswithngapartji.com/ The…
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POC Zine Project Presents RACE RIOTS TOUR!
Read more: POC Zine Project Presents RACE RIOTS TOUR!This piece is about multiple layered “creative activism”. There is art, activism, and community building. According to the Merriam Webster dictionary, a zine is a “noncommercial often homemade or online publication usually devoted to specialized and often unconventional subject matter.”…
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Tactical Ice Cream Unit – Selling Ice Cream, With Sprinkles of Anarchism
Read more: Tactical Ice Cream Unit – Selling Ice Cream, With Sprinkles of AnarchismBy COREY KILGANNON There was something odd about the ice cream truck that pulled up to the curb on Park Avenue near 67th Street on Friday, with its proletarian color scheme and its overdressed driver with the subversive grin. He…
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UndocuNation gathers artists at International House
Read more: UndocuNation gathers artists at International HouseUndocuNation, a performance and visual art conglomeration, took place this past Friday at International House. The Center for Race and Gender at Berkeley, CultureStr/ke, and the Theater and Dance Performance Studies department here at UC Berkeley helped put on the…
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Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui
Read more: Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El AnatsuiThe first solo exhibition in a New York museum by the globally renowned contemporary artist El Anatsui, this show will feature over 30 works in metal and wood that transform appropriated objects into site-specific sculptures. Anatsui converts found materials into…
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Barbara Jones-Hogu and AFRICOBRA
Read more: Barbara Jones-Hogu and AFRICOBRAA Conversation With Barbara Jones-Hogu Words by Barbara Jones-Hogu In 1973, Edward Springs, the former director of the Studio Museum of Harlem, wrote, “AFRICOBRA—African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists—from their perspective as Afro-Americans are attempting to identify style and rhythm…
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Liberation art from the Church
Read more: Liberation art from the ChurchFrom Black Power to Migrants’ Power BY Robin Cembalest POSTED 01/22/13 As ’60s activist art enters museums, a new generation is creating an iconography of protest for today “There have been the singing nun and the flying nun, but the…
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Ramiro Gomez, Public Artist Affirms The ‘Human Statement’ Of Hollywood Hills’ Gardeners, Housekeepers
Read more: Ramiro Gomez, Public Artist Affirms The ‘Human Statement’ Of Hollywood Hills’ Gardeners, HousekeepersBy Andrea Long-Chavez The recognizable figure of a Latino gardener is a common sight for most Southern California locals. But if you happen to see the cardboard painting of a gardener propped up against a chain link fence or hedge,…