Projects tagged
Wealth & Poverty
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NannyVan
Read more: NannyVanReversing decades of discrimination set into place when New Deal labor laws intentionally excluded domestic workers, New York State in 2010 passed the very first Domestic Workers Bill of Rights. Hawaii and California followed soon after with other states soon…
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Homeless Vehicle Project
Read more: Homeless Vehicle ProjectTogether with a group of homeless New Yorkers, Wodiczko constructed the Homesless Vehicle as an instrument of survival for urban nomads. A modified shopping cart that facilitates refundable bottle and can collection, it also provides temporary shelter. As a house…
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‘Speaking Pie to Power’
Read more: ‘Speaking Pie to Power’BBB are a network of militant bakers armed with pies that are ready to change the world. They stand for ecology, bioregionalism, human-scale economies, and proper gastronomics, and their method is inspired by Noël Godin, who has been pieing public…
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Across Athens, Graffiti Worth a Thousand Words of Malaise
Read more: Across Athens, Graffiti Worth a Thousand Words of MalaiseATHENS — The young man climbed a 30-foot scaffold on a building in central Athens and dipped a brush into a tray of gray paint. With rapid flicks of his wrist, he outlined a haunting image: a baby with two…
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Spring has Sprung. One for One. Lets Have Some Fun.
Read more: Spring has Sprung. One for One. Lets Have Some Fun.Hello and thanks for viewing. This was a little installation that took place in the beauty of West Texas. The goal was to reorientate the site specific Prada Marfa into something more relevant, TOMS Marfa. Prada Marfa, being in the…
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The Indebted States of America
Read more: The Indebted States of AmericaWith past government shut downs and teetering the fiscal cliff, debt ceiling now eliminated, credit line increase after credit line increase? I thought my timely art piece may be interesting for your viewers and spark healthy/heated discussion. Attached: My recent…
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Chinese Artist Xu Bing’s Phoenix takes flight at New York
Read more: Chinese Artist Xu Bing’s Phoenix takes flight at New YorkXu Bing, the internationally acclaimed Chinese artist, has brought his “Phoenix” installation to the majestic nave of the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. The two phoenixes, both Feng, the male, and Huang, the…
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2015
Read more: 2015The slogan of 2015 is “Art changes Perceptions, Perceptions change people, People change the world”. The organization has created an online community where anyone can post digital images of poverty existing in the Arab world. The action was created in…
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Sheep invade the Louvre
Read more: Sheep invade the LouvreTwelve sheep and a sheepdog walk into the Louvre. If it sounds like the beginning of a joke, it’s not. In Paris Friday, French farmers protesting European Union agricultural policy herded a flock of sheep down the steps of the…
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Project Impact
Read more: Project ImpactBy Lauren Hersh, with Katie Cappiello, Artistic Director, The Arts Effect. It’s dark outside, 20 degrees, and we’ve taken to Super Bowl Boulevard in NYC with a team of teen girls who are passionate about ending modern day slavery. They’ve…