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End Bad Breath

Date:
Jun 5 1968

Wired Article: IN 1957 SEYMOUR Chwast published a book titled A Book of Battles. It was 24 pages of hand-colored linocut illustrations depicting infamous battles waged throughout history. Chwast, by then a partner at the famed graphic design outfit Push…

Mile-long bus museum honoring children killed by gun violence heads to Ted Cruz’s Texas home

Practitioner:
NRA Children’s Museum

Date:
Jun 5 1968

Article written by Katy Barber: A mile-long procession of school buses are headed to Sen. Ted Cruz’s home in Houston on Thursday, July 14. Thursday’s roll-out is the official start of The Yellow Bus Project and Cruz’s house is the…

Cloud Studies

Practitioner:
Forensic Architecture

Date:
Jun 5 1968

Forensic Architecture’s Cloud Studies is a project that investigates the impact of toxic clouds on colonised and oppressed communities. The clouds, originating from sources like tear gas, industrial emissions, chemical weapons, and forest fires, often go unaddressed due to doubt…

Change the Ref Organisation Campaign Puts Children at the Heart of Warzone’s

Practitioner:
Change The Ref

Date:
Jun 5 1968

Energy BBDO launches its latest activation on behalf of Change The Ref, a leading gun-control organisation which was formed to empower our Future Leaders. The activation, ‘New Recruits’ is Change the Refs latest effort to ignite a movement to ban…

If Not Now, When?

Practitioner:
Wakefield London

Date:
Jun 5 1968

If Not Now, When? is an ongoing exhibition that showcases the work of 31 female sculptors, employing diverse materials and forms to address social and environmental issues such as gender equality, nuclear disarmament, and electronic waste. The Hepworth Wakefield in…

1,100 Body Bags Line National Mall For Action to Curb Gun Violence

Practitioner:
March for Our Lives

Date:
Jun 5 1968

Over 1100 black “body bags” fanned out over a section of grass on the National Mall in Washington D.C. on March 24 in a plea for sanity. Each represented roughly 150 individuals who have died from gun violence since the…

The Great Migration Series

Practitioner:
Jacob Lawrence

Date:
Jun 5 1968

National Public Radio (NPR): There’s no historical marker outside Jacob Lawrence’s childhood home in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood. But Khalil Gibran Muhammad, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, has an idea of what it might…

Pan American Unity

Practitioner:
Diego Rivera

Date:
Jun 5 1968

The Stanford Daily: There is no word short of “spectacular” that better describes the experience of examining “Pan American Unity,” Diego Rivera’s 1940 mural, housed since 2021 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). The piece is the…

“Supporting Ukraine Is Not a Choice, But Our Common Duty”: How a Group of Artist-Activists Is Supporting Ukraine From Warsaw

Practitioner:
Sunflower Solidarity Community Center

Date:
Jun 5 1968

In 2023, it is impossible to be an apolitical artist in Eastern Europe. As war rages on in Ukraine, art serves as a powerful and necessary tool, according the members of the Sunflower Solidary Community Center in Warsaw: Maria Beburia,…

The Problem We All Live With

Practitioner:
Norman Rockwell

Date:
Jun 5 1968

The Norman Rockwell Museum is very unique. It attracts people of all ages from all around the world to visit. I’ve heard adults saying “I remember selling that copy of The Post door to door!” or seen children’s excited faces…