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Guerilla Girls, Do Women have to be naked to get into the Met. Museum?, 1989

Date:
Jan 1 1989

The Guerilla Girls are a group of feminist activist artists, who use facts, humor, and outrageous visuals to expose gender and ethnic bias and corruption in politics, art, film, and pop culture in their artworks. In 1989, they designed this…

Art activist group Led by Donkeys paints Ukrainian flag in front of Russian embassy

Practitioner:
Led by Donkeys

Date:
Jan 1 1989

Yesterday morning (23 February), Led by Donkeys staged a protest in front of the Russian embassy in London, creating a large-scale public artwork in solidarity with Ukraine. The group poured litres of yellow and blue paint on each side of…

The Hong Kong Artist Who Got Fired From McDonald’s

Practitioner:
Luke Ching

Date:
Jan 1 1989

On a recent eight-hour shift at a McDonald’s in Hong Kong, Luke Ching, 52, wiped tables, cleared trays of half-eaten fries, emptied cups of soda and milk tea and lugged bulging trash bags to the dumpster. For him, the main…

Myanmar’s Artists Captured the Spirit of the Resistance. Now They’re Continuing the Fight from Abroad

Practitioner:
Chuu Wai Nyein

Date:
Jan 1 1989

Chuu Wai Nyein felt an overwhelming sense of guilt when she first arrived in Paris from Myanmar at the end of April. “I was pushed to leave the country, but it was not how I wanted to leave,” says the…

Memes, Jokes and Cats: South Koreans Use Parody for Political Protest

Practitioner:
South Korean citizens

Date:
Jan 1 1989

As South Koreans took to the streets this month demanding the ousting of their president, some found an unexpected outlet to express their fury: jokes and satire. They hoisted banners and flags with whimsical messages about cats, sea otters and…

Portugal’s Carnation Revolution

Practitioner:
Celeste Caeiro

Date:
Jan 1 1989

Celeste Caeiro, who on April 25, 1974, handed out red carnations to soldiers on their way to ending a 40-year right-wing dictatorship in Portugal, a spontaneous patriotic act that gave a largely bloodless coup its name, the Carnation Revolution, and…

‘Met Museum, you’re complicit’: artists and activists take over museum’s front steps with giant pro-Palestine quilt

Practitioner:
Palestinian Liberation

Date:
Jan 1 1989

Hundreds of artists, cultural workers and activists gathered on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Fifth Avenue in New York on Sunday (24 March), demanding that the most visited museum in the US publicly call for a…

Kurdish Artist Zehra Doğan Has Been Freed in Turkey After 3 Years for Illustrating Turkey’s Violence

Practitioner:
Zehra Doğan

Date:
Jan 1 1989

The Kurdish journalist and artist Zehra Doğan was freed yesterday after nearly three years in prison, Hyperallergic reports. Doğan first caught the attention of the Turkish authorities back in 2017 with a watercolor that depicted a Kurdish district after Turkish…

Shielding Justice: Cannupa Hanska Luger’s Artistic Activism and Beyond

Practitioner:
Cannupa Hanska Luger

Date:
Jan 1 1989

This protest installation was first used in 2016 at Standing Rock when the community banded together to protect the Missouri River from a Dakota Access Pipeline. The mirror shields can protect against non-lethal deterrents like rubber bullets that may be…

Raise Your Umbrellas: How Denise Ho went from Cantopop queen to pro-democracy activist

Practitioner:
Denise Ho

Date:
Jan 1 1989

In Hong Kong in 2014 the song Raise Your Umbrella by Denise Ho and Anthong Wong became an anthem for the pro-democracy movement known as the Umbrella Revolution. The song was written after police fired tear gas into the crowds…