Projects tagged
Violence & War
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What Else Could We Speak About?
Read more: What Else Could We Speak About?DEATH IN VENICE by: Kaelen Wilson-Goldie One of the most controversial figures in the recent history of the Mexico City art scene, Margolles has been making work from the material traces of death for 20 years. In 1989, she joined…
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A Night Of Philosophy And Ideas
Read more: A Night Of Philosophy And Ideas“A Night of Philosophy and Ideas is a thinker’s lollapalooza. The free, 12-hour weekend lyceum at the Brooklyn Public Library includes spirited debate, live music, theater, performance art pieces, and film screenings. At any given hour, five or six different…
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Red Paint Splashed on Roosevelt Statue after second “Anti-Columbus Day Tour”
Read more: Red Paint Splashed on Roosevelt Statue after second “Anti-Columbus Day Tour”Just weeks after activists staged an alternative tour of the American Museum of Natural History to call for its removal, among other things, the equestrian statue of Teddy Roosevelt was vandalized early Thursday morning. The base of the statue, which…
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March Against Death
Read more: March Against DeathOn the night of Thursday, Nov. 13, 1969, the “March Against Death” began. By the time that weekend was over, Washington, D.C., had seen more protesters than any single event in its history had drawn. Attendance was higher, by tens…
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Ferdinand the Bull
Read more: Ferdinand the BullOn a damp and rainy Sunday in October of 1935, Munro Leaf sat down to write a story. He had been eager to work with his friend – the illustrator Robert Lawson – for some time and so he decided…
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GLOBAL PEACE WALKWAY VR PEACE MUSEUM PROJECT
Read more: GLOBAL PEACE WALKWAY VR PEACE MUSEUM PROJECTImagine affecting the global cultural Landscape through art and technology use. Imagine one-mile long installation in 100 city locations worldwide, each mile-long install is of 250 bronze plaques of different Peacemakers. Then imagine its own App that when any smartphone…
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Unspeakable
Read more: UnspeakableAs a visual art student, I’m interested in hearing your feedback about this project. Thanks We need to make a call to awaken humanity from their passivity and social indifference and acceptance of criminals who did commit crimes against humanity.…
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Yankee Doodle Dandy
Read more: Yankee Doodle DandyThe Fourth of July is upon us, so it’s time once again to sing what is arguably our most baffling national ditty, “Yankee Doodle Dandy.” Maybe you’ve noticed: Some of the lyrics seem like the work of a prankster on…
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Guernica
Read more: GuernicaPablo Picasso painted Guernica in just five weeks in the spring of 1937. Then living in Paris, Picasso, fifty-five, was already well-known. Born in Spain in 1881, he went to Paris in 1900; he had visited Spain in 1934 but…
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Just Be – Challenging perceptions & changing attitudes on forced migration
Read more: Just Be – Challenging perceptions & changing attitudes on forced migrationThe participants are taking part in a one week empathy to action training in Cork. As a part of this training we were asked to plan a campaign around “Empathy to action”. Our theme was global forced migration. We wanted…