Projects tagged

Wealth & Poverty

  • London’s “Free Butt Plug Catalogue” Confronts Hostile Architecture

    London’s “Free Butt Plug Catalogue” Confronts Hostile Architecture
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    May 16 2025

    Hostile architecture—urban design features like ground spikes that deter the homeless from lying down or slanted benches that prevent lingering—inscribes exclusion into our streets. In response, a Chinese artist will launch the Free Butt Plug Catalogue, an art-activism project that…

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  • Hunger King

    Hunger King
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    May 16 2025

    From Public Delivery: Located behind a resplendent Opera House in Budapest on the same road as Louis Vuitton sits Hunger King, a place that seems to be just like any other burger joint. However, it is anything but. Hunger King…

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  • Paddling Home

    Paddling Home
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    May 16 2025

    From Public Delivery: Kacey Wong has a knack for creating art that investigates the space between people and their surrounding environment. Paddling Home, which was performed on the Hong Kong Victoria Harbor, was a star feature in the Hong Kong…

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  • Ivanka Vacuuming

    Ivanka Vacuuming
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    May 16 2025

    From Public Delivery: “The art piece, which was showcased at the Flashpoint Gallery in Washington D.C. from February 1 to 17, 2019, allowed visitors to interact with it. The audience had a pile of crumbs placed right in front of…

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  • Crack is Wack

    Crack is Wack
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    May 16 2025

    Without having been commissioned—or even given legal permission at all—Haring set out to create Crack Is Wack on the wall of an abandoned handball court in a park at 2nd Avenue and East 128th Street on June 27, 1986. Upon…

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  • Inside Out Project

    Inside Out Project
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    May 16 2025

    After winning the TED Prize on March 2, 2011, the French-artist JR launched the Inside Out Project, in his first TED Talk. Using his own artistic practice as inspiration, this participatory platform helps individuals and communities to make a statement…

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  • the Fundred Project

    the Fundred Project
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    May 16 2025

    The Fundred Dollar Bill Project, initiated by artist Mel Chin, is a collaborative art project aimed at raising awareness and mobilizing action against the environmental and health threat of lead contamination. It encourages individuals to create their own unique interpretations…

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  • Art Everywhere

    Art Everywhere
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    May 16 2025

    CENTRO San Antonio’s Art Everywhere Project will celebrate its 5th anniversary in May. As of May 2024, the project had seen numerous artists from the city’s urbancore decorate areas of the city with elaborate murals reflecting the city’s history and…

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  • Funk Lessons

    Funk Lessons
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    May 16 2025

    Adrian Piper’s “Funk Lessons” (1982-84) was a series of performances and collaborative events in which the artist taught white participants about black funk music, its culture, and its history, aiming to deconstruct stereotypical ideas about Black culture. Adrian Piper began…

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