Projects tagged
Visual Arts
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No More War!
Read more: No More War!I will create a series of paintings with acrylics on canvas size 15″ x 19″. The subject of my art works will be the futility and immorality of modern warfare. External sources:
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ABOLISH ICE
Read more: ABOLISH ICEThe resistance to Trump’s ICE militia is strong and is documented in the online art exhibition, “ABOLISH ICE” https://sites.google.com/view/abolish-ice/home The participating artists-activists are from New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and California. The artists include Jackie Lima, Aileen Bassis, Patricia…
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Tom of Finland
Read more: Tom of FinlandTouko Valio Laaksonen (8 May 1920 – 7 November 1991), known by the pseudonym Tom of Finland, was a Finnish artist who made stylized highly masculinized erotic art, and influenced late 20th-century gay culture. He has been called the “most…
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Courthouse Protest
Read more: Courthouse Protesthe tundra of northern Norway is a long way from the Venice Biennale. Indeed, it is a long way from anywhere, at least viewed through western eyes. To reach the gentle herd of reindeer who are now feeding under the…
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Iranian Women of Graphic Design
Read more: Iranian Women of Graphic DesignPlatform ‘Iranian Women of Graphic Design’ share open-access protest posters to amplify #WomenLifeFreedom movement—triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini—in Iran and beyond. Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, died in hospital three days after being arrested by the morality…
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The Rhode Island-based artist creates sculptures from trash that look like wildlife from one perspective — but reveal themselves as much more when you take a closer look.
Read more: The Rhode Island-based artist creates sculptures from trash that look like wildlife from one perspective — but reveal themselves as much more when you take a closer look.“Works in Progress” highlights artists across a range of disciplines whose work deals with ecological themes. Considering the particular role that artists play in the climate movement, this column shares their voices and provides a glimpse behind the curtain into…
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Women of Allah
Read more: Women of AllahShirin Neshat’s Women of Allah is a photographic series exploring the complex identities of Muslim women in post-revolutionary Iran. Combining black-and-white portraits, Persian calligraphy, and symbolic elements such as guns and veils, Neshat interrogates themes of martyrdom, violence, femininity, and…
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Becoming an Image
Read more: Becoming an ImageCassils’ Becoming an Image confronts issues of queer and trans visibility, bodily violence, and the politics of witnessing. The performance uses a powerful blend of media—including live action in darkness, flash photography, clay sculpture, and sound—to explore how trauma and…
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Crack is Wack
Read more: Crack is WackWithout having been commissioned—or even given legal permission at all—Haring set out to create Crack Is Wack on the wall of an abandoned handball court in a park at 2nd Avenue and East 128th Street on June 27, 1986. Upon…
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Tatlin’s Whisper #6
Read more: Tatlin’s Whisper #6This is the sixth piece of the series Tatlin’s Whisper which examines the relationship between apathy and anaesthetization of the images in the mass media. This series intends to activate images, well-known because of having been repeatedly seen in the…