Projects tagged
Installation
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Homeless Art Gallery
Read more: Homeless Art GalleryDuring 2008-2009, when the United States was entering a recession, the idea of the Homeless Art Gallery was popping up across Staten Island, New York City’s least populated borough and biggest underdog. This is an example of art intervention, disrupting…
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Sirens of the Lambs
Read more: Sirens of the LambsSirens of the Lambs By Banksy A slaughterhouse delivery truck touring the meatpacking district and then citywide for the next two weeks. http://www.banksyny.com/# Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDIz7mEJOeA External sources: http://www.banksyny.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDIz7mEJOeA http://www.streetartnews.net/2013/10/banksy-stuffed-animals-new-truck.html
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The Bank
Read more: The BankMany of the banks originally situated on Bank Street in Sharjah have left for more lucrative locations, so we have imagined a new, non-monetary banking model for the street. What if we were to regard the sum total of memories…
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Corrected Billboard Applauds NSA Prior to Congressional Vote
Read more: Corrected Billboard Applauds NSA Prior to Congressional VoteThe California Department of Corrections (CDC) has unveiled a new billboard campaign to defend the domestic spying operations of the National Security Agency (NSA). On July 23, 2013 the CDC successfully apprehended, rehabilitated and discharged a billboard at Bayshore Boulevard…
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Foreigners Everywhere
Read more: Foreigners EverywhereThe Paris-based collective Claire Fontaine displays a neon sign that spells the words ‘Foreigners Everywhere’ in Arabic. Since this sign was installed strategically above the gallery’s wall-length window – facing in the street – in the edition of the show…
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Mining the Museum
Read more: Mining the MuseumWhen Fred Wilson did an installation at the Maryland Historical Society in 1992, he shook up the museum world. Co-sponsored by the historical society and the Contemporary Museum, Mining the Museum did not involve artwork made by the artist; rather,…
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Long Branch Library Plaza Installation
Read more: Long Branch Library Plaza InstallationAfter researching several potential sites as far afield as Baltimore, Eisenbach and Ruppert “became attracted to the library because the plaza has never been used,” Eisenbach says, citing the fact that the library’s second-level entrance onto the plaza is locked.…
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Sweeping Out Corruption
Read more: Sweeping Out CorruptionFour ministers in Brazil have resigned since January after being implicated in corruption, and on Wednesday, protesters showed they’ve had enough. Protesters planted 594 green and yellow brooms right in front of Brazil’s Congressional building each representing the colors of…
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Occupy Barbie Dream-House
Read more: Occupy Barbie Dream-HouseWe at “Left Youth [‘solid] Kreuzkölln” have been around long enough of this policy and its lousy consequences for us. But how to solve the problem now? The problem is clearly the capitalist society for us. Even at school you…
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DebtFair
Read more: DebtFairOccupy Wall Street’s art offshoot, Occupy Museum, has a new initiative: deconstructing the commercial art fair model. They are calling this art fair antithesis the DebtFair. Last May at the Frieze Art Fair, Occupy Museum distributed flyers and protest literature…