Projects tagged
Installation
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Transparency and translation of scientific data to mitigate climate change
Read more: Transparency and translation of scientific data to mitigate climate changeAmongst the European network of cultural institutions there has been widespread recognition that the climate crisis is a cultural crisis. In 2019 members of the European Theatre Forum convened and adopted the Dresden Convention, a revolutionary text that aimed to…
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The AIDS Memorial Quilt
Read more: The AIDS Memorial QuiltCleve Jones’s powerful vision for memorializing those lost to AIDS was realized in October 1987 in Washington D.C. It showcased the artistic contributions of people who’d lost loved ones to the virus from a number of US metropolitan centers. The…
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Art Everywhere
Read more: Art EverywhereCENTRO San Antonio’s Art Everywhere Project will celebrate its 5th anniversary in May. As of May 2024, the project had seen numerous artists from the city’s urbancore decorate areas of the city with elaborate murals reflecting the city’s history and…
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The Pink Seesaws
Read more: The Pink SeesawsThe US-Mexico border wall has become a battleground for political theater, but also various artistic interventions. One of these outstanding artworks is the pink seesaws. They went viral after they were installed by the two creative architects Ronald Rael and…
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Ai, Rebel: The Art and Activism of Ai Weiwei
Read more: Ai, Rebel: The Art and Activism of Ai Weiwei“Everything is art. Everything is politics.” Globally renowned artist Ai Weiwei (Chinese, b. 1957) is celebrated as a disruptor of artistic canons and a champion of free expression. In his work—ranging across performance, photography, sculpture, video, and installation—he deploys humor…
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For $84,000, An Artist Returned Two Blank Canvasses Titled ‘Take The Money And Run’
Read more: For $84,000, An Artist Returned Two Blank Canvasses Titled ‘Take The Money And Run’The money was supposed to be used to create modern art. And it was — but not in the way a Danish museum expected when it gave an artist the equivalent of $84,000. In return, it received two empty canvases.…
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Rat Row
Read more: Rat RowA fat cat, a pig wearing a top hat and five rats. All seven inflatables faced the 34th Street entrance of the Empire State Building last Thursday, two weeks into a protest by members of Laborers Local 79 who rallied,…
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Bat Cloud
Read more: Bat CloudA dark cloud hovers above a stand of Eastern cottonwood trees in Tifft Nature Preserve, a 264-acre woodland nature refuge on Lake Erie. But this is no ordinary cloud; it is a high-tech habitat for one of the world’s most…
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Design For Freedom Summit Shares Strategies For Removing Modern-Day Slavery From Building And Construction Supply Chain
Read more: Design For Freedom Summit Shares Strategies For Removing Modern-Day Slavery From Building And Construction Supply ChainShackles. Cotton. The Big House. Americans tend to think of slavery in terms of chattel slavery. Plantation Slavery. Slavery where human beings are bought, sold, and owned. The kind outlawed in the United States by the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.…
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Project Row Houses, 1993-2018, Houston (Texas)
Read more: Project Row Houses, 1993-2018, Houston (Texas)Collective Creativity in the Beginning Project Row Houses (PRH) is, and has always been, a unique experiment in activating the intersections between art, cultural and historic preservation, affordable and innovative housing, community engagement and development, neighborhood revitalization, and human empowerment.…