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Trump’s old Iowa campaign bus turned into satirical art – stripper pole and all

Practitioner:
Mary Mihelic and David Gleeson

Date:
Jan 31 2016

The campaign bus was attracting funny looks. On its side was the by now all-too-familiar last name of the Republican presidential frontrunner. Somewhere inside the castle-shaped hotel next door, Donald Trump was holding court, as hundreds awaited another rally of…

Spec Ops: The Line

Practitioner:
Walt Williams; Richard Pearsey

Date:
Jan 31 2016

Often in military style video games we kill without much regard for the enemy. They are faceless or stereotypical, the Nazi or evil Cold War–era Russian. They are enemies that were fought on the battlefields of great wars, or they…

Land Minds: spreading internet freedom and privacy

Practitioner:
Minds.com

Date:
Jan 31 2016

In the past few years we have seen a growing awareness and concern with Internet freedom and privacy, fuelled by Edward Snowden’s revelations of the vast U.S. government’s surveillance programs, by Wikileaks’ publications, by protests against the Stop Online Piracy…

I Have a Right Too…

Practitioner:
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis

Date:
Jan 31 2016

CAM brings contemporary art and ideas directly to Saint Louis Public High School and Middle School students through its ArtReach program. Tailored to meet the needs of individual schools and teachers, ArtReach is designed to raise awareness of contemporary issues…

Capitalism Works For Me! True/False

Practitioner:
Steve Lambert

Date:
Jan 31 2016

A 20ft by 9ft scoreboard that reads “Capitalism Works For Me!” and allows visitors to vote on whether Capitalism works in their lives by pressing a button for True or False. “Capitalism is discussed every day using euphemisms like ‘jobs,’…

Embassy Of Iran in Jerusalem

Practitioner:
Hamabul collective

Date:
Jan 31 2016

There is no embassy of Iran in Jerusalem. We ask why. We are a group of artists living and creating in Jerusalem, trying to create a new reality. one which we can identify with. A reality of dialogue between the…

RAT-PAC

Practitioner:
The Resistance Arts Trust Political Action Committee

Date:
Jan 31 2016

The Resistance Arts Trust Political Action Committee is a Super PAC with the mission of challenging great Artists to create public works of political art meant to inform communities, start conversations and drive media coverage on progressive issues, and empowering…

#manifestjustice

Practitioner:
Manifest Justice

Date:
Jan 31 2016

In the wake of the amount of police brutality that has been occurring since the dawn of the damn police, an institution that began as a way to find escaped slaves, across the United States, #manisfestjustice chooses to make its…

An Eternal Optimist: The Positive Message of Yoko Ono’s New MoMA Retrospective

Practitioner:
Yoko Ono

Date:
Jan 31 2016

An Eternal Optimist: The Positive Message of Yoko Ono’s New MoMA Retrospective by Steff Yotka How did they ever make a Yoko Ono exhibit? The pop cultural icon is a figure either so beloved or so reviled that an individual’s…

Syria: Third Space

Date:
Jan 31 2016

This exhibition is a collection of work by displaced Syrian artists. With the support of the British Council, ‘Syria: Third Space’ demonstrates the roles that artists play in supporting recovery and resilience. It seeks to show how artists can break…