Projects tagged
Installation
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Teeter-Totter Wall
Read more: Teeter-Totter WallAn installation by architecture studio Rael San Fratello, which connected children in the US and Mexico via a trio of seesaws slotted into the countries’ border wall, has been crowned the Design of the Year. Dubbed the Teeter-Totter Wall, the…
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the fearless funny feminist taking on a white male art world
Read more: the fearless funny feminist taking on a white male art worldSay hello to ArtActivistBarbie (AAB), whose modus operandi is small signs, big questions and a fabulous wardrobe. With her inviting call to arms, “Refuse to be the muse!” this fierce new incarnation of Barbie is helping to challenge art galleries…
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Malcolm X Street
Read more: Malcolm X StreetAt a time when the city of Portland was considering stripping Martin Luther King Jr.’s name off a local street, a covert organization calling itself Group X changed the name of another downtown street to Malcolm X Street in a…
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This Subway Is Too Small
Read more: This Subway Is Too SmallIn 2017, the political party Ahora Buenos Aires (Now Buenos Aires) was running in the legislative election for the first time. It is not easy being a small left-wing party in the City of Buenos Aires, therefore imagination is an…
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As Far As My Fingertips Take Me
Read more: As Far As My Fingertips Take MePeter Marks Review from the Washington Post: “As Far as My Fingertips Take Me,” a performance piece about the ordeal of seeking refuge by Tania El Khoury that’s being presented for the next 2½ weeks in the lobby of Woolly…
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Naming the Lost Memorials
Read more: Naming the Lost MemorialsIn May 2020, a team of artists, activists, folklorists, and people who lost loved ones to Covid-19 came together to make monthly memorial sites in New York City to remember victims of the Covid-19 pandemic. They continued installing memorials around…
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Left Litter in the Park? Thailand Officials Will Mail It to Your Home
Read more: Left Litter in the Park? Thailand Officials Will Mail It to Your HomeOfficials in Thailand had an unorthodox approach to deal with visitors who left a tent filled with litter in a national park: mail the trash to the offenders. The country’s environment minister said that he wanted to call attention to…
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The Climate Clock
Read more: The Climate ClockFor more than 20 years, Metronome, which includes a 62-foot-wide 15-digit electronic clock that faces Union Square in Manhattan, has been one of the city’s most prominent and baffling public art projects. Its digital display once told the time in…
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Hunter’s Poppet
Read more: Hunter’s PoppetHate hunting? Want to do something creative to protect wildlife and affect positive change? The Hunter’s Poppet is a witch-craftivism intervention, free to use and share. A ‘poppet’ is a ritual object made to represent a human figure, charged with…
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Immigrant Yarn Project
Read more: Immigrant Yarn ProjectThe Immigrant Yarn Project (IYP), organized and created by Cindy Weil was a massive work of public and democratic (crowd-sourced), yarn-based art honoring our immigrant heritage and promoting tolerance, difference, and community. Weil reached out across the state and beyond…