Projects tagged
Installation
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kelli rae adams: Forever in Your Debt, an Exhibition at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
Read more: kelli rae adams: Forever in Your Debt, an Exhibition at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary ArtStudent loan debt in the US today totals over 1.7 trillion dollars and is collectively borne by more than 44 million Americans, including artist kelli rae adams. With her installation Forever in Your Debt, adams converts this abstract burden into…
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Bombed-out Nativity Sculpture
Read more: Bombed-out Nativity SculptureThis year, Bethlehem is sombre and quiet. There is no Christmas tree and there are no holiday lights or tourists to see them. Instead, the city of Jesus’s birth – which is in the middle of a war zone –…
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Luxury and Degradation in the Town of Gelendzhik
Read more: Luxury and Degradation in the Town of GelendzhikRACC Satellite Space in Garden City 1205 Franklin Avenue, 3rd Floor, Garden City, NY 11530 June 26, 10 am – July 28, 7 pm Monday – Friday, 10 am – 7 pm, free admission Please write to racc.ny@mail.ru or call…
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Cultural center on wheels brings the arts closer to working-class Brazilians
Read more: Cultural center on wheels brings the arts closer to working-class BraziliansSAO PAULO, May 16 (Reuters) – At one of Latin America’s largest commuter bus terminals in Brazil’s gritty downtown Sao Paulo, 84-year-old Rerizenil de Paula Santos waits on a bus decorated with neon lights and bright graffiti amid the hustle…
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Local artist stages demonstration inspired by protesters in China
Read more: Local artist stages demonstration inspired by protesters in ChinaLate last month, Chinese citizens took up a creative means of protest over the nation’s strict “zero-COVID” policy. In a place with little tolerance for large public demonstrations, protesters have been holding up blank pieces of paper. Their ingenuity inspired…
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A Man Was Lynched By Police Yesterday
Read more: A Man Was Lynched By Police YesterdayIn 2015, Walter Scott fled for his life, stalked by a policeman who then cold bloodedly shot him in the back. We all saw the video and in response to this murder I made the artwork, “A Man Was Lynched…
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Reclaiming the Monument
Read more: Reclaiming the MonumentText by Jessica Stewart – In Virginia, one artist is helping his community reclaim a controversial monument in the name of Black Lives Matter. The Robert E. Lee Monument now stands as the only remaining Confederate statue on Richmond’s historic…
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50 States, 50 Billboards
Read more: 50 States, 50 BillboardsIn 2018, For Freedoms commissioned billboards by artists across America ahead of the U.S. midterm elections. How can artists spark honest dialogue and reflection about issues that affect them locally and nationally? That’s the question For Freedoms, an artist-led nonprofit,…
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Students protest gender-based violence in Latin America
Read more: Students protest gender-based violence in Latin AmericaFor some, International Women’s Day is a day for the celebration of the social, cultural, and professional achievements of women. Many others, on the other hand, believe that we are not yet at the point of celebration, arguing that with…
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Partnership Exhibition with the Banneker-Douglass Museum and Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture
Read more: Partnership Exhibition with the Banneker-Douglass Museum and Maryland Commission on African American History and CultureMaryland Hall, in partnership with the Banneker Douglass Museum and Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture, invited Maryland-based Black artists, whose work encapsulates activism and social justice and using the creative process to educate their audiences about diversity,…