Projects tagged
Mixed Media
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HeForShe
Read more: HeForSheHeForShe is a solidarity campaign for gender equality initiated by UN Women. Its goal is to engage men and boys as agents of change for the achievement of gender equality and women’s rights, by encouraging them to take action against…
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Call for Remove Homophobic Chinese Textbooks
Read more: Call for Remove Homophobic Chinese TextbooksIn November 2015, Chinese LGBT activist Chen Qiuyan met with government officials in Beijing after months of campaigning to have the Ministry of Education remove textbooks which identify homosexuality as a mental disorder. In 2001, the Chinese Society of Psychiatry…
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Political Posters, Joseph A. Labadie Collection
Read more: Political Posters, Joseph A. Labadie CollectionThe Joseph A. Labadie Collection contains posters which have been acquired over the past 100 years. This database consists of images of those posters covering social protest movements such as Anarchism, Civil Liberties, Colonialism, Communism, Ecology, Labor, Pacifism, Sexual Freedom,…
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Experiential Museum housing horrors of the past
Read more: Experiential Museum housing horrors of the pastIn time for the 30th Anniversary of the famed EDSA People People Revolution, a two-day pop-up museum in Camp Aguinaldo serves as a vivid reminder of a significant period in Philippine History. The interactive museum, which is composed of nine…
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The Resurgence of Women-Only Art Shows
Read more: The Resurgence of Women-Only Art ShowsAt the peak of her career in 1976, Georgia O’Keeffe refused to lend her work to a pivotal exhibition in Los Angeles, “Women Artists: 1550 to 1950.” It was one of a wave of all-female shows — some 150 —…
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Enchanted Dolls
Read more: Enchanted DollsThe Enchanted Doll is the famous brand of the Russian jeweler artist and designer Marina Bychkova who makes absolutely incredible porcelain and polyurethane dolls for adults. Marina was born in the city of Novokuznetsk in the USSR and since 1997…
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The Guerrilla Girls Call Out Art-World Inequality
Read more: The Guerrilla Girls Call Out Art-World InequalityIt’s women’s history month, and your favorite radical feminist avengers want you to go ape. The Guerrilla Girls have been making noise about gender and racial inequality in the art world since 1985. Fighting discrimination with a sense of humor…
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YBCA Explores Art And Activism in Take This Hammer
Read more: YBCA Explores Art And Activism in Take This HammerA new exhibition at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts that showcases activism through art and media in the San Francisco Bay Area, gets its name, Take This Hammer, from a 1963 documentary about the author James Baldwin as…
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Street Artist Blu Destroys 20 Years of His Work in Bologna to Protest an Exhibition
Read more: Street Artist Blu Destroys 20 Years of His Work in Bologna to Protest an Exhibition“Seeing street art exhibited in a museum is paradoxical and grotesque,” they [Blu and his comrades] wrote of Banksy and Co. “This ‘street art’ exhibition [featuring 250 works of street art, some of which were removed from their original public…
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How Selective Enforcement of Illegal Advertising Laws Punishes Creative Activism
Read more: How Selective Enforcement of Illegal Advertising Laws Punishes Creative ActivismThe enforcement of city and state law pertaining to graffiti, advertising, and other signage has enormous power to visually shape public space. In New York City, enforcement is heavily skewed to ignore illegal commercial advertising, while simultaneously aggressively targeting graffiti…