Projects tagged
Violence & War
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Threads of Resistance
Read more: Threads of ResistanceA juried exhibition of fiber art created by the Artist Circle Alliance to protest the Trump administration’s actions and policies. This is a traveling exhibition to 13 venues across the U.S. All work in the exhibition, as well as the…
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Nostalgia for the Light
Read more: Nostalgia for the LightThe Atacama Desert in northern Chile — the setting of Patricio Guzmán’s transfixing cinematic essay “Nostalgia for the Light” — is a place where heaven and earth converge. Or some might say heaven and hell. Situated on the leeward side…
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‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’ inspires real-life billboards
Read more: ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’ inspires real-life billboardsA pair of activist groups have taken a tactic straight from the Oscar front-runner “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.” The movie centers on a grieving mother, angry that the man who raped and killed her daughter still hasn’t been found…
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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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Picha Mtaani
Read more: Picha MtaaniOn 7th December 2009, “Picha Mtaani” was launched at a colorful ceremony in Nairobi. “Picha Mtaani” in partnership with UNDP Kenya, was an initiative that seeks to create a platform for peace building, national healing and cohesion through street picture…
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Speech/Acts at ICA Philly
Read more: Speech/Acts at ICA PhillyIn “Speech/Acts,” a group exhibition organized by Meg Onli at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, Kameelah Janan Rasheed and Tiona Nekkia McClodden stood out as artists who take up voices, histories, and experiences that can help audiences move…
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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…
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Healing Torture Through Art
Read more: Healing Torture Through ArtNajah al-Bukai cannot forget. As an accomplished artist in Syria before the war, Mr. Bukai had long thought his photographic memory was his greatest asset, allowing him to recreate scenes on his sketch pads and canvases days, months and even…
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Buses in Seoul install ‘comfort women’ statues to honour former sex slaves
Read more: Buses in Seoul install ‘comfort women’ statues to honour former sex slavesBuses serving several routes in central Seoul have acquired a new and highly controversial passenger: a barefoot “comfort woman”, wearing a traditional hanbok dress with her hands resting on her knees. Appearing on the front seat of buses in the…
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Iranian Documentary ‘The Gardener’, on Religion and Baha’i Garden
Read more: Iranian Documentary ‘The Gardener’, on Religion and Baha’i GardenThe Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf opens “The Gardener” with the declaration: “I am an agnostic filmmaker.” From anyone else, this might seem like a simple statement, but not from the complex Mr. Makhmalbaf. In 1974, when he was 17, religious…