Projects tagged
Violence & War
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‘Met Museum, you’re complicit’: artists and activists take over museum’s front steps with giant pro-Palestine quilt
Read more: ‘Met Museum, you’re complicit’: artists and activists take over museum’s front steps with giant pro-Palestine quiltA two-hour rally at the New York museum drew many supportive cheers and honks, plus a handful of antagonistic shouts Benjamin Sutton 25 March 2024 Hundreds of artists, cultural workers and activists gathered on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum…
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MIS(S)PLACED WOMEN?
Read more: MIS(S)PLACED WOMEN?Mis(s)placed Women? (2009-2022), is a collaborative art project, consisting of performances, performance series, performance art workshops and delegated performances, including contributions by over 180 individuals from six continents. Many of them are artists, mainly identifying themselves as women from diverse…
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Pro-Palestine Subway Art
Read more: Pro-Palestine Subway Art“Late last night, an autonomous group of activists placed posters throughout the subway system, blocking out advertisements with their own materials protesting Israel’s bombing campaign in Gaza. One group of about a dozen gathered deep in the Bronx, obscuring their…
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‘Can You Hear the Screams?’ Physician Says Western Leaders Complicit in Israeli Attacks on Gaza Hospitals
Read more: ‘Can You Hear the Screams?’ Physician Says Western Leaders Complicit in Israeli Attacks on Gaza HospitalsA Norwegian physician who has volunteered in Gaza for decades said Friday that Western leaders, including U.S. President Joe Biden, are complicit in Israel’s intensifying assault on the Palestinian enclave’s hospitals, which are overwhelmed with airstrike victims and displaced people…
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“Stop the plutonium shipment!”
Read more: “Stop the plutonium shipment!”While meditating in front of a Nepalese Sarasvati statue on New Year’s Day in 1991 at her California home, Mayumi received a calling that brought a sudden halt to painting. Having witnessed the horrors of atomic bombings as a child…
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Hundreds of Pro-Palestine Protestors Stage Events at MoMA and Brooklyn Museum
Read more: Hundreds of Pro-Palestine Protestors Stage Events at MoMA and Brooklyn MuseumAs the conflict between Israel and Hamas continues, hundreds of people gathered inside the Museum of Modern Art and outside of the Brooklyn Museum on Saturday for protests. Images and videos posted on Instagram show several banners unfurled inside MoMA’s…
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HUMAN RIGHTS WALL IN PARIS: A MURAL IN TRIBUTE TO SIX CONTEMPORARY ACTIVISTS, OUR PHOTOS
Read more: HUMAN RIGHTS WALL IN PARIS: A MURAL IN TRIBUTE TO SIX CONTEMPORARY ACTIVISTS, OUR PHOTOSParis inaugurates its first fresco, on the Human Rights Wall, in tribute to six contemporary activists. To be discovered in the capital’s 12th arrondissement, this XXL work of committed street art is by Mahn Kloix. Street art continues to color…
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Moving Chains
Read more: Moving ChainsMoving Chains is a monumental 110-foot long kinetic sculpture that evokes the hull of a ship, built from steel and Sapele, a tree native to West Africa commonly referred to as African Mahogany. Inside of the sculpture, nine chains run…
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Drawing the line: meet the Romanian artist-activist tackling world crises one cartoon at a time
Read more: Drawing the line: meet the Romanian artist-activist tackling world crises one cartoon at a timeDan Perjovschi is one of Romania’s foremost artistic voices. Although known as a talented multi-disciplinary artist in his home country, particularly for his early performance work, he is most widely known internationally for his massive drawing installations. Executed directly onto…
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WHAT THE SUICIDE OF AUTHOR LIN YI HAN CAN TEACH US ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH
Read more: WHAT THE SUICIDE OF AUTHOR LIN YI HAN CAN TEACH US ABOUT MENTAL HEALTHThe author behind ‘The First Paradise of Fang Siqi,’ a novel that Han described as ‘a young girl falling in love with her rapist,’ has sent shockwaves through Taiwanese society. On April 27, aspiring Taiwanese author Lin Yi Han committed…