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A Legal Guide Helps Artists Make and Protect Protest Art

Practitioner:
Harvard University’s Cyberlaw Clinic and metaLAB

Date:
Jan 22 2018

Harvard University’s Cyberlaw Clinic and metaLAB have created a free guide for making protest art while navigating intellectual property law. “Because political art speaks directly to issues that people care deeply about (in that instance, having an African-American First Family),…

A Haunting Artistic Tribute to Garment Workers Killed in Bangladesh and the US

Practitioner:
Artist Rachel Breen, Poet Alison Morse

Date:
Jan 22 2018

NORTHFIELD, Minn. — Exactly 1,281 white garments hang from the ceiling of the Perlman Teaching Museum’s Braucher Gallery. The collared shirts, knit sweaters, tights, and other items of clothing glow with an eerie luminosity. The 1,281 garments represent the number…

The Guerrilla Girls attack gender and class bias at Art Basel Hong Kong

Practitioner:
Guerrilla Girls

Date:
Jan 22 2018

For more than 30 years, the Guerrilla Girls have travelled the world exposing sexism and inequality in the art industry, and this week they proved Hong Kong was no exception. Three members of the anonymous feminist collective—calling themselves Frida Kahlo,…

“Medicine Man,” a mobile sculpture commissioned by MAKE ART/STOP AIDS

Practitioner:
Daniel Goldstein, John Kapellas, MAKE ART/STOP AIDS

Date:
Jan 22 2018

“Medicine Man,” a mobile sculpture that MAKE ART/STOP AIDS commissioned from San Francisco-based artists Daniel Goldstein and John Kapellas. The piece is constructed of pill bottles that Goldstein and Kapellas, and their partners, saved up from treatment regimens dating as…

Queer vernaculars and visual narratives IRANTI

Practitioner:
Iranti

Date:
Jan 22 2018

ONGOING ORGANIZATION: CALLED: Iranti [pronounced írantì] is the Yoruba word for ‘memory’. Largely found in South West Nigeria and parts of Benin Republic, the Yoruba people consider memory a prized form of intelligence which determines how often one remembers what…

Artists in Seven South American Cities Reflect on Past Dictatorships

Practitioner:
various groups

Date:
Jan 22 2018

*image* Gabriela Golder, “Letters” (photo by Federico Lo Bianco, courtesy Parque de la Memoria) BUENOS AIRES — Dictatorships and armed conflicts have been all too familiar in South America’s recent histories. To take stock of these experiences, in 2016 the…

HANGING KLANSMEN ART INSTALLATION STUNS RICHMOND COMMUNITY

Practitioner:
Indecline

Date:
Jan 22 2018

A Richmond, VA.-based activist group called Indecline has recently installed a street art resistance installation of several hung clown figures dressed like the KKK from a tree in Richmond’s Bryan Park. The same group behind the naked Donald Trump statues…

Artist Replaces Billboards with Photos of the Landscapes They’re Blocking

Practitioner:
Jennifer Bolande

Date:
Jan 22 2018

Visible Distance / Second Sight is an art installation by Jennifer Bolande for DesertX. The temporary artwork can be found along the Gene Autry Trail near Vista Chino (33°50’41.70”N 116°30’21.02”W), where a series of consecutive billboards have been replaced by…

The story behind the strange 8th Ave. subway statues and the cartoons that inspired them

Practitioner:
Tom Otterness

Date:
Jan 22 2018

At the Eighth Avenue subway station, sewer alligators are not an urban legend. Anyone who’s been through the 14th St./Eighth Ave. station has probably seen the bronze gator sculpture — and probably wondered what it means and why it’s there.…

NYC Artist Is Using Her Unapologetically Brown Identity to Empower Others

Practitioner:
Johanna Toruno

Date:
Jan 22 2018

You’ll find Johanna Toruno on the streets of NYC plastering pictures of her flower-filtered poetry, Kendrick Lamar, and Selena on blank walls, street lights and buildings. When I came across The Unapologetically Brown Series on Instagram I was intrigued not…