Projects tagged
Visual Arts
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Reframing Trash Into Art
Read more: Reframing Trash Into ArtIn 2008, my work as an artist took me to a gigantic landfill outside Rio de Janeiro called Jardim Gramacho. After operating for more than 30 years, the sanitary facility, once one of the largest in the world, had reached…
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North Korean Artist Hopes Reverse Propaganda Will Change Lives Back Home
Read more: North Korean Artist Hopes Reverse Propaganda Will Change Lives Back HomeSong Byeok is one of the most acclaimed Korean artists living today. He is from North Korea, where he was a propaganda artist for the North Korean government for two decades. After defecting in 2002, Byeok has turned his prolific…
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Photographer Stéphan Gladieu Documents the Congolese Street Children Turning Waste into Wonder
Read more: Photographer Stéphan Gladieu Documents the Congolese Street Children Turning Waste into Wonder“So dramatic, so strong, so visual,” artist Stéphan Gladieu said of his first encounter with the revival of an ancestral folk art movement in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Kinshasa is the capital of Congo but also one of the…
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Law of the Journey
Read more: Law of the JourneyThe exhibition Law of the Journey is Ai Weiwei’s multi-layered, epic statement on the human condition: an artist’s expression of empathy and moral concern in the face of continuous, uncontrolled destruction and carnage. Hosted in a building of symbolic historical…
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Dismaland
Read more: DismalandDismaland was an experimental and interactive art installation that mimicked and mocked similar attractions and characters of the Disney franchise. He later referred to it as a ‘bemusement park.’ Although the bemusement park seemed to disappear as suddenly as it…
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Artist Rufina Bazlova uses embroidery as a form of ‘gentle protest’
Read more: Artist Rufina Bazlova uses embroidery as a form of ‘gentle protest’Rufina Bazlova is not afraid to surrender her art to activism. Born in Belarus, a former Soviet republic ruled by the authoritarian leader Aleksandr Lukashenko for 29 years now, Bazlova knows all too well that being apolitical is a privilege…
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Bread and Puppet Theatre: Insurrection Resurrection Service Circus
Read more: Bread and Puppet Theatre: Insurrection Resurrection Service CircusThe Insurrection-Resurrection Service Circus is this summer’s [started in 2020 and is ongoing] contribution to the iconic Bread and Puppet Circus tradition beloved by audiences worldwide for nearly 2 generations — a bright, raucous melee of short acts governed by…
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Female Writer 她–美女作家
Read more: Female Writer 她–美女作家Yu Hong’s Female Writer, a painted and photographic portrait of the writer Zhao Bo 趙波 (b. 1971), recalls courtly images of idealized beauties. Yu, however, deliberately complicates the perspective in her composition: she asked the sitters for her She series…
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Whose Utopia? 谁的乌托邦
Read more: Whose Utopia? 谁的乌托邦Whose Utopia? was made by the Chinese artist Cao Fei and filmed at the OSRAM lighting factory in Foshan in the Pearl River Delta in southern China during 2005 and 2006. It was commissioned as part of a project entitled…
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Ladies’ Room 洗手间 (2000)
Read more: Ladies’ Room 洗手间 (2000)Ladies’ Room, lasting fewer than six and a half minutes, offers a behind-the-scenes look at a women’s washroom in a nightclub located in a Beijing hotel. A male patron of Cui Xiuwen’s studio first took her there, and she acknowledges…